Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Rabelais the laughing philosopher dedicated his immortal work "To all honest drinkers"

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Rabelais the laughing philosopher dedicated his immortal work "To all honest drinkers"

Nov. 30, 1923
9 x 7 1/16 inches (229 x 180 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1986.1617

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
Caption continues: To whom Dewars also dedicate their whiskey.
Original preliminary sketch for an advertisement for Dewar's Whiskey, by Edmund J. Sullivan.
Simple sketch in graphite below, crossed out by the artist, showing a figure drinking from a whisker barrel, with the caption: A Gargantuan thirst
Inscriptions/Markings
Dated at right: Nov. 30, 1923; at head, in pencil, "Rabelais the laughing philosopher dedicated his immortal work "To all honest drinkers"; at bottom,"To whom Dewars also dedicate their whiskey."
Classification
Century Drawings