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Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it pledged the dead man

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it pledged the dead man

1927
10 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (265 x 186 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1554

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. London : Macmillan & Co., 1928.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed on verso, "Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it pledged the dead man. p. 68."
Classification
Century Drawings