Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Four Sketches for Don Quixote
1920s
Pen and black ink, on paper.
8 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (226 x 177 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1717
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Four sketches on a single folded sheet that formerly comprised 2 conjoined leaves (i.e. four pages) of a disbound sketchbook, with one drawing on each page; dimensions of unfolded sheet: 226 x 351 mm
Preliminary sketch by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for an unpublished edition of Don Quixote.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketches for Don Quixote, including four studies of Don Quixote's features on p. [1] of [4]; rough sketch of Don Quixote astride Rosinante on p. [2]; a drawing of an artist seated before an enormous canvas showing Don Quixote astride a winged horse fighting a giant, on p. [3]; and a sketch showing the stooped figure of Don Quixote on the back of Rosinante, with a figure that appears to be that of Sancho Panza standing beside him, and the caption "Defeat" inscribed below, on p. [4].

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