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Image | 1845-Paris-01-004 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Frederic Bouchot |
Engraver | Jean Achille Pouget |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Sancho accourut promptement au grand trot de son âne |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 8 |
Subject |
8.2 Adventure of the windmills (giants) |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Wood engraving or Xylography |
Color | Printed in black on sepia background with reserves in white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 26 |
Image Dimension | 139 x 108 |
Page Dimension | 214 x 130 |
Commentary | In the foreground, don Quixote lying on the ground "defeated" by a windmill; meanwhile, Sancho arrives from the background to help him.
In the background, two Dutch windmills. Free and quick drawing/engraving style, as sketched; in keeping with Romanticism taste; notice Rocinante's figure. |
Notes | Frederic Bouchot (1798 - ?): Designer, wood engraver and lithographer. Bouchot worked for numerous Parisian magazines, did many titles for musical pieces and collaborated on comical albums, as Caricature, Journal pour rire or Charivarí; he engraved Daumier’s designs (Benezit II, 214).
Jean Achille Pouget (Paris, 19th century): Wood engraver. Pouget, Brévière’s disciple, exhibited at the Salon in 1846 by the first time; then, also in 1877 (Benezit VIII, 453). |