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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Twelfth Night
1926
Pen and ink over graphite, on illustration board.
20 3/8 x 14 11/16 inches (519 x 374 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1611
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Original drawing by Edmund J. Sullivan for an illustration for Shakespeare's Twelfth night.
Caption continues: (Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, & Feste the Clown - Catch sung) Enter Maria. What a caterwauling do you keep here!
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan, 1926"; captioned in ink, "Twelfth Night. (Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, & Feste the Clown - Catch sung) Enter Maria. What a caterwauling do you keep here!"; typed and printed label on verso from artist's agent R.P. Gossop: By Edmund J. Sullivan. ARWS. ARE.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows Feste playing a guitar and singing, while the carousing Sir Toby and Sir Andrew accompany him and Maria looks on from the doorway.
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