FOUR PICTURES: IV. THE MIRROR

BY E. J. SULLIVAN

Image is of a woman looking at herself in a handheld mirror She is standing in front of a full length rectangular mirror turned away from her reflection and her left hand is holding the ornately patterned handheld mirror in order to see her reflection from the larger mirror Her right hand is pushing up against her hair She is wearing a full dress with puffy sleeves There are drawn curtains on either side of the mirror and candle-holders with three long stemmed candles in each The image is vertically displayed

MLA citation:

Sullivan, E. J. “Four Pictures: IV. The Mirror.” The Yellow Book, vol. 13, 1897, p. 227. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2011-2014. The Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020, https://1890s.ca/yb13-sullivan-mirror/

magazine_images The Yellow Book 13 Four Pictures: IV. The Mirror E. J. Sullivan 1897 Pen and Ink Illustration Curtain, Mirror, and Candle Human Figure, Female Figure/ Woman, Clothing, and Puffed Sleeves 1890s Indoor setting and Interior