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Image 1865-Madrid-Gaspar-01-004 
Illustration No. 1  2     
Illustrator Tony Johannot (copied after) 
Engraver Unknown 
Lithographer  
Title Caption  
Title Supplied Cervantes writing his prologue helped by a friend 
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter 03. Prologue 
Subject 03.1 Cervantes writing prologue/story
03.2 Cervantes and his “friend”
 
Illustration Type Initial
 
Technique Wood engraving or Xylography
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number IX 
Image Dimension 90 x 64 
Page Dimension 253 x 164 
Commentary Cervantes, in his prison in Argamasilla de Alba, receives the visit of a friend while writing his prologue. Cervantes asks him (see his gesture) for an advise to write it. 
Notes 1 - Acceptable copy after Tony Johannot's illustration for Paris: Dubochet, 1836-37.