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Theatrical; in the background, a great curtain.
Good drawing and fine engraving appropriate to the small format of the illustration.
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| Image | 1808-Paris-03-004 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Claude? Lefebvre |
| Engraver | Louis-Joseph Masquelier l’aîné |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | Frappant de toutes ses forces sur les malheureuses Outres, dont le vin rouge ruisseloit a flots autour de lui. |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 35 |
| Subject |
35.2 Adventure of wineskins |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | III |
| Page Number | f.p. 63 |
| Image Dimension | 96 x 55 |
| Page Dimension | 129 x 76 |
| Commentary | Well-known scene; don Quixote, asleep and with a blanket around his arm, draws his sword against the giant Pandafilando (wineskins); the innkeeper seizes don Quixote to hit him; the priest and the barber arrive to stop them; Sancho searchs Pandafilando's blood and head on the floor.
Theatrical; in the background, a great curtain. Good drawing and fine engraving appropriate to the small format of the illustration. |
| Notes | 1 – Same plate first engraved for Paris: Didot L’Aîné-Deterville, 1799; now without frame. |