Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried,
Asking, 'What Lamp had Destiny to guide
Her little Children stumbling In the Dark?'
And – 'A blind understanding!' Heav'n replied
Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)
Price
£850
Signed
Signed and dated 1912
Medium
Pen and ink on board
Dimensions
9 x 6 ¾
inches
Provenance
Brigadier A C Sykes of Corton, Wiltshire and by descent
Illustrated
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Methuen & Co, 1913, Verse XXXIII
Exhibited
Venice Biennale, 1914; 'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1894-2020', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2020-January 2021, No 5