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Dewars a Great Scot!

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Dewars a Great Scot!

Dec. 1, 1923
9 x 7 1/16 inches (229 x 179 mm)
Graphite on paper, mounted on backing sheet.
1986.1620

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
Caption continues below: Phairson[?] had a son who married Noah's daughter, and nearly spoilt the flood, by drinking up the water. This would he done-I for one believe it had the mixture been only half Glenlivet-the ballad [illegible] I for one am sure only one half Dewar.
Original preliminary sketch by Edmund J. Sullivan of an advertisement for Dewar's Whiskey.
Drawing mounted on p. [1] of a folded sheet, 15 1/8 x 22 inches, with another sketch by Sullivan mounted on p. [3] (see 1986.1621).
Inscriptions/Markings
Dated at upper right: Dec. 1, 1923; at head, in pencil, "Dewars a Great Scot!"; at bottom, "Phairson[?] had a son who married Noah's daughter, and nearly spoilt the flood, by drinking up the water. This would he done-I for one believe it had the mixture been only half Glenlivet-the ballad [illegible] I for one am sure only one half Dewar."; note in pencil at lower right, "all sorts of odd fish in water."
Classification
Century Drawings