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She would suddenly spring up in affected surprise ...

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

She would suddenly spring up in affected surprise ...

1927
14 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (373 x 266 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1486

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and dated below, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed in pen at bottom, "She would suddenly spring up in affected surprise, & pointing to the clock 'Mercy, Mr. Archie!' she would say, 'Whatten a time o'night is this of it!' (Weir of Hermiston. p. 53)."
Classification
Century Drawings