Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"I have been the means, under God, of haanging a great number, but never such a disjaskit rascal as yourself"
1927
14 11/16 x 10 7/16 inches (373 x 265 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1484
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel "Weir of Hermiston," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel "Weir of Hermiston," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.
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Inscribed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed in pen at bottom, "Weir of Hermiston. (p. 24) 'I have been the means, under God, of haanging a great number, but never such a disjaskit rascal as yourself.'"
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