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| Image | 1946NewYork-01-029 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Salvador Dalí |
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| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote with the helmet of Mambrino |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 24 |
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| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Offset |
| Color | In color |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | between 246 and 247 |
| Image Dimension | 174 x 220 |
| Page Dimension | 182 x 236 |
| Commentary | The illustration is more suggestive than clear as regards its meaning as its relation with Cervantes' text.
Don Quixote on Rocinante and Sancho on his donkey in a very oniric setting, a desert landscape (notice the use of light); in the background, the goatherd (?) (as a labourer from the Ampurdán), some bones (the dead mule?) and some crags (Sierra Morena?). Notice the constrast between the figures of don Quixote and Sancho; the squire, pragmatic, maintains a realistic style; however, don Quixote, mad, has been resolved in keeping with a very remarkable oniric esthetics; notice that he has no face. |
| Notes | 1 - The landscape and the use of light in this illustration can be compared with others of Dalí's well-known paintings, as Persistence of the memory (1931) |