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Good image, comical.
Drawing and engraving are quite free, but effective.
Rocinante's figure lightly clumsy.
Setting sketched.
2 - Title supplied after 1848 edition.
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| Image | 1858-Tours-Mame-01-004 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard Grandville |
| Engraver | Barbant |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Quelle joie, se disait-il, pour les siècles à venir, de connaître l'histoire de mes illustres exploits!. |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 2 |
| Subject |
2.1 First sally |
| Illustration Type |
Vignette |
| Technique |
Wood engraving or Xylography |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | 8 |
| Image Dimension | 102 x 84 |
| Page Dimension | 240 x 154 |
| Commentary | Don Quixote, armed and mounted on Rocinante, leaves his house in search of adventures; first sally.
Good image, comical. Drawing and engraving are quite free, but effective. Rocinante's figure lightly clumsy. Setting sketched. |
| Notes | 1 - Same illustration first appeared in Tours: A. Mame, 1848.
2 - Title supplied after 1848 edition. |