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To a Man with a Big Nose

film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ17027361 ↗
Source-derived summary

To a Man with a Big Nose is a 3D animated short film by Cecilia Aranovich, based on a poem by Spanish author Francisco de Quevedo. It is in essence a visual adaptation of Quevedo's sonnet. Quevedo is officially credited for the film's script.

The film was selected for Best Animation at the 2006 Fargo Film Festival.

Editorial summary

“To a Man with a Big Nose” enters the record as film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nose and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nose and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“To a Man with a Big Nose” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nose and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17027361. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “To a Man with a Big Nose”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow To a Man with a Big Nose primary sources, To a Man with a Big Nose archive and Nose research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “To a Man with a Big Nose” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.