Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Proof for a book cover for, "The Death of Virgil," by Hermann Broch. On grey ground, photograph depiction of a robed figure statue holding a scroll in one hand and a laurel wreath in the other. Text in black and white, upper margin: The death of / VIRGIL; lower margin: Hermann Broch. On spine: HERMANN BROCH / The death / of / VIRGIL. At left and right, inside leaf of book jacket with book's and publisher's details.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Pantheon, New York, New York, USA
- Author
- Hermann Broch, Austrian, 1886–1951
- Date
- 1945
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 × 54.2 cm (9 3/16 × 21 5/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Type
