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Celestial Motion Lamp

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Celestial Motion Lamp

1912
10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (267 x 188 mm)
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
1986.1462

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 46 of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: For in and out, above, about, below, "Tis nothing but a magic Shadow-show...
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "XLVI".
Classification
Century Drawings