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.
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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...
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...
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "XLIX".
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