Said One – 'Folks of a Surly Tapster Tell
and Daub His Visage with the Smoke of Hell;
They Talk of Some Strict Testing of Us – pish!
He's a Good Fellow, and 'Twill All Be Well'
Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)
Price
£650
Signed
Signed and dated 1907 Inscribed 'LXIV' below mount
Medium
Ink on board
Dimensions
5 ¾ x 4 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 LXIV
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. the British Art of Illustration 1900-2016', November 2016-January 2017, No 14