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Potter Punching a Head of Clay

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Potter Punching a Head of Clay

1912
10 7/16 x 7 7/16 inches (265 x 189 mm)
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
1986.1461

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 36 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : 260 London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day, I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet Clay...
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at top, "XXXVI".
Classification
Century Drawings