Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
It was not Alan who lay there ... it was no drunkard, for the body lay in a black pool of blood, and the open eyes stared upon the ceiling
1927
14 3/4 x 10 7/16 inches (374 x 266 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1495
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The misadventures of John Nicholson," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The misadventures of John Nicholson," 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, "John Nicholson. It was not Alan who lay there ... it was no drunkard, for the body lay in a black pool of blood, and the open eyes stared upon the ceiling. p. 173."
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