Lot 99: Edmund Joseph Sullivan (British, 1869-1933)

Three drawings for an unpublished political cartoon book, Germany's Future With a Good Peace and a Bad Peace (1918). Comprising:
1. "Germany's Future With a Good Peace and a Bad Peace." Cover design. Signed with name, address and date (Jan 11, 1918) in the lower right margin. Pen and ink and red watercolor on illustration board.
2. "Camouflage." Signed and dated 1918 with name, title and date (January 4, 1918) on verso. Pen and ink. Also indicated on the back is that this picture was to appear in the "National News."
3. "Man and woman with Cupid after the war." Pen and ink on illustration board.
Various sizes.

E. J. Sullivan was one of the premier English illustrators of the 1890s and early twentieth century. "Perhaps," declared Walter Crane in Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (1905), "the most remarkable work in book illustration has been that of Mr. E. J. Sullivan, whose powerful designs ... are full of vigor." Among the many artists Sullivan profoundly influenced was Arthur Rackham. Sullivan intended to collect his anti-German World War I cartoons for the National News in a single volume as a follow-up to The Kaiser's Garland (1915), but the work was never issued.