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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
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).