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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Omar Khayyam
Nov. 30, 1923
Graphite on paper, mounted on backing sheet.
9 x 7 3/16 inches (229 x 182 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1625
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Caption continues: I often wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell-if he had known DEWARS whiskey he would have wondered still more.
Original preliminary sketch by Edmund J. Sullivan of an advertisement for Dewar's Whiskey.
Drawing mounted on p. [3] of a folded sheet, 15 1/8 x 22 inches, with another advertising sketch by Sullivan mounted on p. [1] (see 1986.1624).
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Dated at upper right: Nov. 30, 1923; caption in pencil, "Omar Khayyam I often wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell-if he had known DEWARS whiskey he would have wondered still more."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketch of a reclining Omar Khayyam.
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