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Image | 1777-Paris-Bailly-01-005 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Unknown |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Premiere sortie de Don Quichotte, il prend un Moulin à vent pour un Géant. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 2 |
Subject |
2.1 First sally |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 22 |
Image Dimension | 117 x 767 |
Page Dimension | 163 x 96 |
Commentary | Allegorical representation of Don Quixote's first sally.
Don Quixote, mounted on Rocinante, leaves his house accompanied by Love (Cupid), who touches his heart with a torch, and Folly, who holds a jester scepter, wears a barber basin with feathers (symbol of madness) and points to a windmill half-transformed into a giant (8:1), a flock of sheep (18:1) and Dulcinea carrying wheat (31:1). Drawing and engraving are quite poor. |
Notes | 1 – Same plate also used in Paris: Chez Barrois Aîné, 1777, and Paris: Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire, 1777.
2 – Copy after Mathey' plate with Coypel‘s design for Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1732. 3 - Turned copy with a new vertical format after Coypel’s illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1724). |