Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Hand Writing the Final Entry in a Celestial Account Book
1912
10 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (265 x 186 mm)
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
1986.1464
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 53 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: With the Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead, And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed...
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 53 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: With the Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead, And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed...
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "LIII".
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