"The Captain of the eleven scored twenty-five in beautiful style" by Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)

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The Captain of the eleven scored twenty-five in beautiful style

Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)

Originally published in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays

Source: James Thorpes's E. J. Sullivan (1948), p. 53

Line drawing reproduced photomechanically (photo-zinc or gelatine process) on paper

6 x 5 in. (in Thorpe)

Signed and dated lower right: Edmund J. Sullivan '96

Private Collection, Providence, Rhode Island.

Other illustrations of this novel

Tom with the others behind him, sidled into the room.

Here's Rugby, sir, at last

Squire Brown, J.P. for the County of Berks

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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Text illustrated

I wish I had space to describe the match—how the captain stumped the next man off a leg-shooter, and bowled small cobs to old Mr. Aislabie, who came in for the last wicket; how the Lord's men were out by half-past twelve o'clock for ninety-eight runs; how the captain of the School eleven went in first to give his men pluck, and scored twenty-five in beautiful style; how Rugby was only four behind in the first innings; what a glorious dinner they had in the fourth-form school; and how the cover-point hitter sang the most topping comic songs, and old Mr. Aislabie made the best speeches that ever were heard, afterwards. But I haven't space—that's the fact; and so you must fancy it all. [Ch 8, "Tom Briown's Last Match]

Bibliography

Sullivan, Edmund J. The Art of Illustration . London: Chapman and Hall, 1921.

Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown's Schooldays. London: 1896.

Last modified 1 January 2007