Dr. Monk: Take a hundred and fifty of these pills with five gallons of hot lemonade before you go to bed tonight, and let me know how you feel in the morning.
This Illustration appeared in LIFE magazine On December 27, 1923. TS Sullivant passed away in 1926.
The image was also recently published on page 288 in the book A Cockeyed Menagerie, The Drawings of T.S. Sullivant.
I love the idea that the sick elephant is reaching for the prescription with his drippy trunk. Sullivant's search for perfection often led him to erase unwanted ink lines from the cardboard's surface, with a knife or a blade of some sort. Lines were erased under the elephant's trunk in order to set back the left arm.
He also redrew the monkey's hand with the prescription.
So much personality in these three characters, if you count the skeleton image. (I wonder what animal that would be, a pig perhaps?).
Image size: 20 x 13 1/2 "
