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Image | 1845-Paris-01-008 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Frederic Bouchot |
Engraver | Bertrand |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Il avait la covverture de son lit autour du bras gauche, et dans la main droite l'épée nue, dont il frappait à tort et à travers |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 35 |
Subject |
35.2 Adventure of wineskins |
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. 122 |
Image Dimension | 139 x 108 |
Page Dimension | 214 x 130 |
Commentary | Well-known scene; don Quixote attacking the wineskins while Sancho, the innkeeper and the barber(?) enter the room.
Don Quixote looks awake, but he should be represented asleep: accurate to Cervantes' text, he is wearing a blanket as shield. The movement has not been resolved well. Free drawing/engraving style, as sketched. |
Notes | 1 - Ashbee confused Bertrand's signature with Bernard's, so he indicates that Bertrand engraved 3 plates, but he only did 2.
2- Possibly, Antoine-Valérie Bertrand (Paris, 1823 - ?): Wood engraver. Bertrand, Brown and Harrisson’s disciple, exhibited in Paris between 1864 and 1879 regularly; in 1874 at the Salon. He worked for Le Magasin Pittoresque and Le Tour de Monde and he also engraved Doré’s designs for La Fontaine’s Fables and Dante’s Divine Comedy (Benezit I, 702). |