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Gorgon and Chess Board

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Gorgon and Chess Board

1912
10 7/16 x 7 3/8 inches (265 x 188 mm)
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
1986.1463

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 49 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays...
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "XLIX".
Classification
Century Drawings