Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"See here, old man Usher," shouted the being in the red handkerchief ...
1913
14 15/16 x 10 3/4 inches (380 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1466
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Caption title
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The mistake of the machine," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Oct., 1913.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The mistake of the machine," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Oct., 1913.
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Signed and dated at upper left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at top, "See here, old man Usher," shouted the being in the red handkerchief. "I'm getting tired-I reckon I'm not a man with no pull." The Mistake of the Machine. II.
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