Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Illustration for a Nonesuch Press edition of Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel, Don Quixote. At center, a bearded figure dressed in armor, hunched over slightly (presumably Don Quixote). The image is shaded in blue and brown. An abstracted silhouette in outline is rendered in brown to the left of the figure. To the right, a similarly shaped silhouette is shaded in blue. To the left of the figure's head, a circle in blue.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Publisher
- Nonesuch Press, London, England, United Kingdom
- Author
- Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish, 1547–1616
- Printer
- The Curwen Press, London, England
- Date
- 1930
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Offset lithograph, hand-colored additions in brush and brown and blue watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.9 × 14.2 cm (9 × 5 9/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Type
