Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Ferry Charon
1912
10 7/16 x 7 1/8 inches (265 x 181 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1457
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 16 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Think, in this batter'd Caravanserae Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day...
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 16 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Think, in this batter'd Caravanserae Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day...
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Signed and dated at bottom, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed "XVI" below in pencil.
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