Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Puck. I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes. ...
1920s?
20 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (521 x 362 mm)
Pen and black ink and blue crayon over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1641
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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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.
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.
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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.
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