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 large bearded face stares straight forward. The face has creases in its forehead and a detailed beard, but its eyes are rendered only as a black shape. The image is shaded in blue (left half) and yellow (right half).
- 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 blue and yellow watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.9 × 14.2 cm (9 × 5 9/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Type
