Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Sancho Panza and the Knight of the Mirrors
1920s
Pen and black ink, on paper.
8 15/16 x 6 15/16 inches (228 x 177 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1706
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Preliminary sketches by E.J. Sullivan for illustrations for an unpublished edition of Don Quixote.

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Inscribed at top by Sullivan: I have mixed up the Squire with the Knight of the Mirrors.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Sketch shows Sancho Panza looking in great alarm at the Knight of the Mirrors, who is here mistakenly shown by the artist wearing the enormous and grotesque false nose worn by the Squire in Cervantes's text.

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