[Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby] | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

[Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby]

An original draft of the cover art (marked "ARTIST PROOF") for The Great Gatsby, dated "NOV 1924" 

Single sheet (240 x 490 mm). Ink, pencil, and watercolor on artists' paper, with manuscript annotations in ink and pencil; old folds, dampstaining along lower margin not affecting image, remnants of adhesive presumably where once mounted, one or two short splits to folds not affecting image.