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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Mambrino's Helmet. Verso: Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and Dorothea at the Inn(?)
1920s
Graphite on paper; verso: pen and black ink, on paper.
8 15/16 x 6 15/16 inches (228 x 177 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1704
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Title on recto from item; title on verso devised by cataloger
Preliminary sketches by E.J. Sullivan for illustrations for an unpublished edition of Don Quixote.
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Recto inscribed at top: Mambrino's helmet. Doré - 271; on verso: Doré. p. 279-80.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketch shows Don Quixote holding up the barber's basin over his shoulder, and gesturing to it dramatically with his other hand; verso: sketch showing an angry Don Quixote confronting a squat figure (probably Sancho Panza), with the figure of a lady standing behind them.
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