Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Age & Character
1920s?
Graphite on paper.
19 7/8 x 14 15/16 inches (505 x 380 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1661
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Caption at bottom reads: "Eh-What?-What?" "Dewars!" "Eh?" "Dewars!" "What?" "Dewars!".
Original preliminary sketch by Edmund J. Sullivan, for a design for an advertisement for Dewar's Whiskey.

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Captioned in pencil, at top, "Age & Character "; at bottom, "Eh-What?-What?" "Dewars!" "Eh?" "Dewars!" "What?" "Dewars!".

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketch shows two men, one of them elderly, conversing in the box of a theater, with the older man cupping his ear with his hand as his younger companion leans towards him to make himself understood.

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