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| Image | 1776-1777-Copenhaguen-Forlag-04-022 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
| Engraver | Johann Georg Preisler |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | Hellige Marie! det mueligt, at min Frue Hertuginden har slige Aflöb |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
| Chapter | Chapter 48 |
| Subject |
48.1 Doña Rodríguez visits DQ at night in his room |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | IV |
| Page Number | f.p. 136 |
| Image Dimension | 128 x 88 |
| Page Dimension | 188 x 120 |
| Commentary | On the left, don Quixote, bandaged and in bed, and doña Rodríguez talk by the light of a candle (accurate to Cervantes' text).
From the right, Altisidora and other Duchess' maidens arrive holding their shoes; one of them is almost catching doña Rodríguez. Extraordinary detailed setting (furniture, canopy, clock...). Coypel has inserted one anecdotal element: a cat observing a mouse. Good drawing and engraving; Preisler's engraving is better than Hass'. |
| Notes | 1 - Good copy of Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30) through Picart's copy (La Haye: Hondt, 1746). Both 1746 and 1777 copies with the same vertical format and same turned composition in comparison with Coypel's illustration.
2 - In Cushing's copy, tomes III and IV are bound together (volume II). |