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A Vision of Sin

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

A Vision of Sin

1914
Image: 16 3/8 x 11 9/16 inches (415 x 293 mm); on board: 21 x 14 3/4 inches (535 x 374 mm)
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1752

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Drawing probably intended for a proposed illustration for Joseph Bibby's "Bibby's Annual" (Liverpool : J. Bibby & Sons, 1906-1936) for the year 1915; for a preliminary sketch for this drawing, see Sullivan's sketchbook containing sketches for Bibby's Annual, MA.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at bottom, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; caption in ink below drawing reads, "II. A Vision of Sin. "What I aspired to be, / And was not, comforts me: / A brute I might have been, but would not sink i'the scale." (Browning)".
Classification
Century Drawings