Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"I hit at last upon this lamp. I have wrenched off the wires and things, and I hold it so."
1899
15 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (397 x 269 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1537
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from published caption.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for "The cure for love," the first chapter of the H.G. Wells novella, A story of the days to come, as it was published with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, v. 18, 1899, p. 198.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for "The cure for love," the first chapter of the H.G. Wells novella, A story of the days to come, as it was published with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, v. 18, 1899, p. 198.
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. /99"; numbered at bottom, "I. No. 4"; inscribed in pencil on verso, "Cure for love"; above that, "Proofs to be seen by Mr. Carl Hentschel next Thursday; with stamp reading "Pall Mall Magazine," at upper left.
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Century Drawings
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