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Image 1749-London-01-013 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator John Vanderbank 
Engraver Gerard van der Gucht 
Lithographer  
Title Caption  
Title Supplied Don Quixote asks the galley slaves about their crimes 
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter Chapter 22 
Subject 22.2 Dialogue with galeotes
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
Etching (acquaforte)
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f.p. 142 
Image Dimension 130 x 86 
Page Dimension 205 x 125 
Commentary Good example of the kind of scenes chosen by Oldfield and Vanderbank to be represented.
Previously (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657 and Amberes: Verdussen, 1672 - 1673), don Quixote had been represented fighting with the soldiers and stoned by the galley slaves; now, none of these scenes interest them.
Don Quixote appears talking to the galley slaves (dialogue).
Idealized image of the slaves, as "good savages".
Excellent drawing and engraving (see gestures and hands: don Quixote, Sancho and slave on the left). 
Notes 1 – Plate newly engraved in a reduced size by Van der Gucht after Baron's plate with Vanderbank’s design first engraved for London: Tonson, 1738.