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Father Time Treading Grapes in a Wine Vat

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Father Time Treading Grapes in a Wine Vat

1912
10 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (265 x 186 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1458

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 21 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : 260 London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest...
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed "XXI" above in pencil; printed label on verso with text of quatrain 21.
Classification
Century Drawings