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25.5 DQ performs mad acts
Accurate to Cervantes' text, Sancho holds a broom bunch.
Well-known scene since Savery (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657).
Drawing and engraving are very detailed and remarkable.
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| Image | 1808-Paris-02-004 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Claude? Lefebvre |
| Engraver | Louis-Michel Halbou |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | Ne garda que sa chemise et fit ensuite deux sauts en l'air et deux culbutes la tête en bas |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 25 |
| Subject |
25.4 SP’s embassy to Dulcinea; 25.5 DQ performs mad acts |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | II |
| Page Number | f.p. 138 |
| Image Dimension | 94 x 52 |
| Page Dimension | 129 x 76 |
| Commentary | In Sierra Morena, before Sancho leaves for El Toboso mounted on Rocinante to take to Dulcinea don Quixote's love letter, the knight makes some somersaults (love penance).
Accurate to Cervantes' text, Sancho holds a broom bunch. Well-known scene since Savery (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657). Drawing and engraving are very detailed and remarkable. |
| Notes | 1 – Same plate first engraved for Paris: Didot L’Aîné-Deterville, 1799; now without frame. |