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Tachist/quick sketching style for the figures in the foreground, and more realistic drawing for the ones in the background.
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| Image | 2001-Beijing-OctoberArts-01-026 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Salvador Dalí |
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| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote and the helmet of Mambrino |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 21 |
| Subject |
21.3 Adventure of the helmet of Mambrino |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Process / Photomechanical technique |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | f.p. 154 |
| Image Dimension | 77 x 132 |
| Page Dimension | 242 x 168 |
| Commentary | The scene, not accurate to Cervante's text, has been resolved with the barber, knelt, offering the basin (Mambrino's helmet) to don Quixote, while Sancho observes the scene beside his donkey.
Tachist/quick sketching style for the figures in the foreground, and more realistic drawing for the ones in the background. |
| Notes | 1 - Same illustration first published in NY: Random House, 1946. |