Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
This time he did not fall into a little meadow just beneath; but fell a thousand feet below, a wreck of bones in the valley
1913
14 15/16 x 10 13/16 inches (379 x 274 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1468
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 paradise of thieves," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Aug., 1913.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The paradise of thieves," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Aug., 1913.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "'This time he did not fall into a little meadow just beneath; but fell a thousand feet below, a wreck of bones in the valley."
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