Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
'My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old familiar juice,
Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!'
Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)
Price
£850
Signed
Signed and dated 1907 Inscribed 'lxv' below mount
Medium
Pen and ink on board
Dimensions
7 ¾ x 5 ½
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 LXV
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1894-2020', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2020-January 2021, No 6