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Image 1906b-NY-Scribners-03-017 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Daniel Urrabieta Vierge 
Engraver  
Lithographer  
Title Caption Don Quixote's Housekeeper Appeals to Samson Carrasco 
Title Supplied  
Part Part II, Madrid 1615  
Chapter Chapter 7 
Subject  
Illustration Type Head vignette
 
Technique Process / Photomechanical technique
 
Color Black and white 
Volume III 
Page Number 66 
Image Dimension 125 x 110 
Page Dimension 255 x 180 
Commentary The housekeeper knelt before the bachelor Sansón Carrasco and begging him to prevent don Quixote from beginning a new sally.
Vierge's style is absolutely masterly; his figures are detailed and real; also the setting, carefully-done and based on real places from La Mancha.
Notice also the perfect use of light and shadow, halftones and shading.
Usual in Vierge's illustrations, some element in black creates a worth noting contrast.
His short and fine drawing lines imitate etching. 
Notes 1 - Vierge's original drawings (Chinese ink and wash) were reproduced by photogravure (notice the plate mark); the specific technique used, heliogravure, allows an excellent reproduction both of the original wash halftones and of the lines.