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Image 1746-Hage-Hondt-01-007 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) 
Engraver Bernard Picart 
Lithographer  
Title Caption Don Quichotte prend le bassin d'un barbier pour l'armet de Mambrin 
Title Supplied  
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter Chapter 21 
Subject 21.3 Adventure of the helmet of Mambrino
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f.p. 43 
Image Dimension 193 x 150 
Page Dimension 272 x 220 
Commentary In the foreground, don Quixote, with great dignity, puts the barber basin on his head, while Sancho Panza laughs.
In the background, the barber running away and leaving his mule fallen.
Well-detailed drawing and engraving.
See rainbow in the background; it has rained at the beginning of this episode. Picart has accentuated this rain (not so evident in Coypel's original illustration) with fine burin lines.
Drawing and engraving are masterly. 
Notes 1 - Plate V (in the French edition, the plates aren't numbered).
2 - Signature and caption re-engraved.
3 - Copied by Picart after Coypel's original illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30). Now, the composicion has been turned and the format is vertical, so the engraver has enlarged the trees and the sky.
4 - Picart has eliminated two women that appeared on the right (now left) side of Coypel´s illustration; these two women do not belong to Cervantes' text, so now the illustration is more accurate.
5 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before.