Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Tower
1914
14 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (372 x 266 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1477
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title; title continues: They followed him on to the island just under the tower.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The perishing of the Pendragons," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, June, 1914.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The perishing of the Pendragons," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, June, 1914.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "The Tower. The Perishing of the Pendragons. (G.K. Chesterton). (e.g. They followed him on to the island just under the tower.)"
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