Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Proof for a book cover (back) for “The Dream of Poliphilo,” by Linda Fierz-David and translated by Mary Hottinger. At top, a stylized, dense forest, rendered in white line. Amongst the trees, at center, a standing figure draped in flowing garments in yellow. Below the image, the Pantheon Press logo in purple, at center. At bottom, a purple horizontal bar against a black ground.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Pantheon, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.2 × 15.6 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
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