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"I am willing to encourage merit, sir; ... I have determined that you shall translate my book of philosophy"

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

"I am willing to encourage merit, sir; ... I have determined that you shall translate my book of philosophy"

1914
14 3/8 x 10 7/16 inches (365 x 265 mm)
Watercolor over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1523

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from published caption list.
Original watercolor drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for George Borrow's Lavengro, the scholar, the gypsy, the priest. London : T.N. Foulis, 1914, p. 240.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at top, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914".
Classification
Century Drawings