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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Only help me to bed, for methinks I can not be well. Verso: "Methinks I am not very well"
Dec. 30, 1921
Pen and black ink, on paper.
8 15/16 x 6 15/16 inches (228 x 177 mm); on sheet: 228 x 351 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1698
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First sketch is on 1/2 of the recto of a folded sheet, meas. 228 x 351 mm, unfolded, with additional studies of Don Quixote for this composition on the verso.
Preliminary sketch by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for an unpublished edition of Don Quixote.
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Inscribed at bottom: Only help me to bed, for methinks I can not be well. p. 705; at upper right: Dec. 30, 1921.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketch shows Don Quixote staggering forward with the assistance of his niece and housekeeper, who each stand by his side and hold his arms to steady him; on verso, four studies of the head of Don Quixote
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