Then Said Another – 'Surely Not In Vain
My Substance from the Common Earth Was Ta'en,
That He Who Subtly Wrought Me Into Shape
Should Stamp Me Back to Common Earth Again'
Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)
Price
£950
Signed
Signed and dated 1907 Inscribed 'LXI' below mount
Medium
Pen and ink on board
Dimensions
7 ¾ x 6 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 lxi
Exhibited
The Illustrators. the British Art of Illustration 1900-2018', November 2018-January 2019, No 53