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	Image	2001-Beijing-OctoberArts-01-004-f
	Illustration No.	1
	Illustrator	Salvador Dalí
	Engraver
	Lithographer
	Title Caption
	Title Supplied	Don Quixote with the helmet of Mambrino
	Part	Part I, Madrid 1605
	Chapter	Chapter 24
	Subject
	Illustration Type	Chapter illustration
	Technique	Offset
	Color	In color
	Volume	I
	Page Number	[Color plate 1]
	Image Dimension	107 x 132
	Page Dimension	242 x 168
	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 oneiric setting, a desert landscape (notice the use of light); in the background, the goatherd (?) (as a laborer from the Ampurdán), some bones (the dead mule?) and some crags (Sierra Morena?). Notice the contrast 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 oneiric aesthetics; notice that he has no face.
	Notes	1 - Same illustration first published in NY: Random House, 1946.