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Image | 1863Paris-Hachette-01-021 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré |
Engraver | Héliodore Joseph Pisan |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | FINALEMENT, IL LUI CONTA, LUI PERSUADA ET LUI PROMIT TANT DE CHOSES, QUE LE PAUVRE HOMME SE DÉCIDA A PARTIR AVEC LUI. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 7 |
Subject |
7.4 Sancho Panza agrees to be his squire 7.5 Promise of an island (insula) |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Wood engraving or Xylography |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 44 |
Image Dimension | 247 X 199 |
Page Dimension | 433 x 313 |
Commentary | Sancho accepts to be don Quixote's squire; both figures appears in the middle of a very realistic and daily village scene (a woman dressing a child, hens and chickens, children playing with a donkey, pigs...), creating a very good contrast between don Quixote and Sancho's "unreal" conversation and the reality that surrounds them.
Drawing and engraving are excellent. |
Notes | "Este prurito de documentación real y directa, que constituye otra de las múltiples novedades del Romanticismo, campea en toda la obra; no con fidelidad de mera copia, sino como base en que amarrar sólidamente el vuelo de la fantasía. [...] Doré presenta a Don Quijote en una actitud y con indumentaria que recuerdan inmediatamente el famoso retrato de Carlos V, pintado por Tiziano, que hoy figura en el Museo del Prado" (GG230-233). |