Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"They will not meet on the Day of Judgement," said the priest. "If God Almighty held the truncheon of the lists, if Saint Michael blew the trumpet for the swords to cross ... the other would not come"
1914
14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (365 x 264 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1480
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The duel of Dr. Hirsch," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Aug., 1914.
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "They will not meet on the Day of Judgement," said the priest. "If God Almighty held the truncheon of the lists, if Saint Michael blew the trumpet for the swords to cross ... the other would not come"; in pencil below caption is written (incorrectly), "The God of the Gongs?"
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