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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.15
People
Saul Steinberg, American (Râmnicu-Sarat, Romania 1914 - 1999 New York, NY)
Title
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (recto and verso)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Abraham Lincoln-Uncle Sam and Santa Claus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1959
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308596

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
37 x 58.9 cm (14 9/16 x 23 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: upper center, black ink: Steinberg
  • stamp: verso, blue ink, stamped: UNBLOCKED, LEAVE BEARERS ON
  • stamp: verso, blue ink, stamped: THE NEW YORKER / EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT / 25 WEST 43RD STREET / 19TH FLOOR
  • stamp: verso, black ink, stamped: COPPER / LEAVE BEARERS
  • inscription: verso, lower edge, graphite: LINE ON COPPER
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: [encircled:] 55 [or SS?]
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: 8286 / 1-1
  • inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: [encircled:] 3[?]
  • inscription: verso, u.r., black pencil: [encircled:] 5
  • stamp: removed from backing? now in curatorial file, black ink, blue pencil, stamped and handwritten: [stamped in black ink:] COPYRIGHT / THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC. / Not to be reprinted in whole or part or / reproduced in any form without written / permission from the NEW YORKER / [handwritten in blue pencil:] AD 4553

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Saul Steinberg, sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, through The New Yorker Magazine, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Copyright
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Unidentified article], The New Yorker (New York, NY, December 12, 1959), repr. p. 26

Exhibition History

  • American Drawings Lent by the Fogg Museum, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 06/30/1964 - 09/30/1964

Verification Level

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