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Image 1696-1700-Amsterdam-Mortier-03-007 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Jacob Savery (copied after) 
Engraver Hendrik Cause 
Lithographer  
Title Caption  
Title Supplied Don Quixote's adventure with a lion 
Part Part II, Madrid 1615  
Chapter Chapter 17 
Subject 17.2 Adventure of the lion
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume III (1700) 
Page Number f.p. 193 
Image Dimension 116 x 70 
Page Dimension 130 x 75 
Commentary In the foreground, don Quixote gets ready to fight with a lion while the lionkeeper opens the gate of the cage.
In the background, Sancho and don Diego de Miranda running away.
This composition, with not many changes, will be used until the 20th century.
Don Quixote has been drawn crudly. 
Notes 1 - Same plate engraved for Paris: Barbin, 1681.
2 - Copy after Amberes: Verdussen, 1672-1673.