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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

I knew an old wife lean and poor, her rags scarce held together; there strode a stranger to the door, and it was windy weather ...

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

I knew an old wife lean and poor, her rags scarce held together; there strode a stranger to the door, and it was windy weather ...

1899
8 5/8 x 8 13/16 inches (232 x 224 mm)
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1433

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The goose," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 191.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at bottom in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; inscribed " No. 1 The Goose (Tennyson) Extracts Berlin 1907 J29328" on verso.
Classification
Century Drawings