File:Frankenstein concept art by Karoly Grosz.jpg

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Description Karoly Grosz's concept art for the monster in Frankenstein (1931). The illustration suggests a robotic, mechanical appearance for the monster. It has been credited as the origination of the bolts in the monster's neck, which had not been described in the source novel by Mary Shelley.
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Illustration by Karoly Grosz while working for Universal Pictures.
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Page 133 in Skal, David J. (2001) [1st ed. pub. 1993 by W. W. Norton & Company]. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Revised ed.). New York: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-19996-8 – via the Internet Archive (registration required). The author retrieved the drawing from an unspecified collection held at the Library of Congress.
Date of publication Summer 1931 (per source)
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Karoly Grosz (illustrator)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

The illustration itself is a topic of substantial discussion in the article and it is needed to support that discussion. It is Grosz's most historically significant credited work outside of poster art because of its considerable influence on Universal's adaptation of the character of Frankenstein's monster, as well as numerous subsequent adaptations and parodies.

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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The image size has been reduced from its original high resolution to the minimal 0.1-Megapixel recommended by WP:IMAGERES. It has been cropped to include only the minimal necessary portion, Grosz's illustration, and omits several other pieces of concept art displayed in a grid on the same page.
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