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He stopped indecisively because a sixth figure had suddenly presented itself just inside the doorway--a figure so incongruous in the scene as to be almost comic

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

He stopped indecisively because a sixth figure had suddenly presented itself just inside the doorway--a figure so incongruous in the scene as to be almost comic

1913
14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (379 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1476

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The man in the passage," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Sept., 1913.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at upper right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "The man in the passage. He stopped indecisively because a sixth figure had suddenly presented itself just inside the doorway--a figure so incongruous in the scene as to be almost comic."
Classification
Century Drawings