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Title from published caption.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for "The cure for love," the first chapter of the H.G. Wells novella, A story of the days to come, as it was published with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, v. 18, 1899, p. 198.
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. /99"; numbered at bottom, "I. No. 4"; inscribed in pencil on verso, "Cure for love"; above that, "Proofs to be seen by Mr. Carl Hentschel next Thursday; with stamp reading "Pall Mall Magazine," at upper left.
Drawing shows the young hero, Denton, standing over another man, the hypnotist, and threatening him with a floor lamp topped with a pointed finial.