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And feeding high, and living soft, grew plump and able-bodied; until the grave churchwarden doff'd, the parson smirk'd and nodded

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

And feeding high, and living soft, grew plump and able-bodied; until the grave churchwarden doff'd, the parson smirk'd and nodded

1899
9 9/16 x 9 5/8 inches (242 x 245 mm)
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1434

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. 193.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at upper left in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; directions for the addition of color to the figures in the margins in pencil; inscribed " No. 2 The Goose Tennyson 1899 Bahts[?] Berlin 1907 J29328", followed by, "Set of 4 £30", on verso.
Classification
Century Drawings