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Original setting; traditionally, this scene is set outside the inn.
The illustration lacks some details from the text: the barber basin, the packsaddle, the broken lance...
Excellent drawing/etching style.
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| Image | 1881-NewYork-Worthington-02-006 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Ricardo de los Ríos |
| Engraver | Ricardo de los Ríos |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Agramant's camp |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 45 |
| Subject |
45.1 Dispute at inn about the Mambrino’s helmet and packsaddle (albarda) |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Etching (acquaforte) |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | II |
| Page Number | f.p. 312 |
| Image Dimension | 110 x 77 |
| Page Dimension | 205 x 138 |
| Commentary | Don Quixote attacks one of the officers of the Holy Brotherhood (center); a second officer arrives to help the first (right); don Luis, pointing to don Quixote, orders the servant that is seizing him to help don Quixote (background); Sancho continues fighting with the barber (left); the priest tries to calm them down; and the innkeeper's wife and her daughter (or Maritornes) observe the scene.
Original setting; traditionally, this scene is set outside the inn. The illustration lacks some details from the text: the barber basin, the packsaddle, the broken lance... Excellent drawing/etching style. |
| Notes | 1 - Same illustration first published in London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1880. |