Edmund Joseph Sullivan
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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Puck. I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes. ...
1920s?
Pen and black ink and blue crayon over graphite, on illustration board.
20 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (521 x 362 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1641
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Design for an advertisement evidently celebrating radio transmission between Great Britain and Australia.
Upper portion of Sullivan's design with the airplane has been executed on a separate piece of paper and mounted in place.
Inscription:
Signed at bottom, "Edmund J. Sullivan. Inv. & Del."; caption reads, "Puck. I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes. (exit & reenter) Oberon. Welcome Wanderer"; label of artists' agent, R.P. Gossop, on verso.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Design shows a globe encircled by a belt and flanked by a kangaroo and the British Lion, with an airplane shown head on above, with the letters "G-E" and "BFO" on its wings.
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