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Image 1916-1918-Kristiania-Swanstrom-01-002-f 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Honoré-Victorin Daumier 
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Title Caption DON QUIJOTE og SANCHO PANZA sovende 
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Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter 02. Frontispiece 
Subject 02.2 Quixote illustration
 
Illustration Type Frontispiece
Vignette
 
Technique Offset
 
Color In color 
Volume
Page Number f. title page 
Image Dimension 145 x 113 
Page Dimension 285 x 200 
Commentary Maybe a reference to chapter 66:2; Don Quixote and Sancho spend the night in the fields in the open air; "Aquella noche la pasaron amo y mozo en mitad del campo, al cielo raso y descubierto" (66:2). 
Notes 1 - Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Resting beneath a Tree by Honoré Daumier (1865, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen).
2 - One of Daumier’s favorite themes was Don Quixote, whose life continually fascinated him. At the time of his death, Daumier had completed 49 drawings and 29 paintings of Don Quixote. The themes of Don Quixote, those of inventiveness, quick thinking, and deception, permeated society, and have been used by many other artists and musicians, including Picasso and Strauss, including Daumier. Perhaps in Don Quixote Daumier was able to find himself in a literary hero, as he saw himself in a quixotic struggle with the society which he so loved to satirize.