Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Illustration for Cassel & Co.'s edition of Arnold Bennett's book, Venus Rising from the Sea. At center, a seated figure dressed in pink clothes and black high heels. The figure's knees are bent in towards their chest, and their arms are wrapped around their knees. A patterned wall or curtain is indicated in the background, at right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Publisher
- Cassell & Co., England
- Author
- Arnold Bennett, British, 1867–1931
- Date
- 1931
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and pink and gray watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.4 × 20.8 cm (10 13/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
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