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Image | 2001-Beijing-OctoberArts-01-040 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Salvador DalĂ |
Engraver | |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | |
Title Supplied | Don Quixote and the princess Micomicona |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 29 |
Subject |
29.2 Dorotea becomes princess Micomicona 29.3 Dorotea kneels before DQ |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Process / Photomechanical technique |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 650 |
Image Dimension | 148 x 115 |
Page Dimension | 242 x 168 |
Commentary | Don Quixote's encounter with the princess Micomicona (Dorotea); different female figures referring the different roles of Dorotea (as real, as a pretended princess, as imagined by don Quixote...).
Quick sketching/tachist style; in keeping with surrealist esthetics. |
Notes | 1 - Same illustration first published in NY: Random House, 1946.
2 - Now placed in chapter 44:II. |