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Home > Illustrations > Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

By Bascove | Created: 1981

Waiting for the Barbarians
Publication
  • "Waiting for the Barbarians" by J. M. Coetzee
Publication Date
  • 1981
Medium
  • Ink, watercolor, and colored pencil
Support
  • Paper
Illustration Size
  • 9.25 x 7.125 in. (23.5 x 18.1 cm.)
Collection
  • Norman Rockwell Museum, Gift of the artist, NRM.2017.03.411

©Bascove

Cover illustration for Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (New York: Penguin Books, 1981.)

Genres
  • Books
  • Cover Art
Global Perspectives
  • North America
Related Time Periods
  • The Decade 1980-1990 The Decade 1980-1990

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