Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"I'll tell you exactly what he did," he said. "He sneezed."
1914
14 7/16 x 10 7/16 inches (366 x 265 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1479
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The salad of Colonel Cray," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, July, 1914.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "'I'll tell you exactly what he did,' he said. 'He sneezed.' The salad of Colonel Cray."
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