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Image | 1776-1777-Copenhaguen-Forlag-04-026 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Johann Georg Preisler |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Sanchos Pidfken vil have Tiid og Hvile og Dulcineas Fortrylnings Oplösning omsider fættes i værk |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 62 |
Subject |
62.4 Episode of the enchanted head |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | IV |
Page Number | f.p. 173 |
Image Dimension | 128 x 87 |
Page Dimension | 188 x 120 |
Commentary | Well-detailed representation of a 18th century bourgeois French house (paintings, furniture, sculptures, carpets...).
Characters are divided in three groups; on the right, the main one. Surrounding the enchanted head (as a Roman bust), don Quixote thoughtful, Sancho astonished, don Antonio and two friends. On the left, in the foreground and in the background, two more groups that balance the composition. Excellent drawing and engraving; fine and highly detailed burin lines. Preisler's plates are the best in this set. Some details (portrait with a dame) have been newly added by Preisler. |
Notes | 1 - Excellent copy of Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1735) through Jacob van der Schley'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 - Wrongly-placed f.p. 173; it should be f.p. 273. 3 - In Cushing's copy, tomes III and IV are bound together (volume II). 4 - In La Haye: Hondt, 1746, there were two more illustrations previous to this: "Sancho reçoit dans une Etable l'ordre de Chevalier, DON QUICHOTTE voulant faire le Cérémonie de lui frapper l'epaule de son épée, la tire avec tant de violence, parce qu'elle étoit rouillée dans le fourreau, que le pauvre SANCHO en reçoit un cruel revers par les machoires" and "DON QUICHOTTE dans un bal chez Don Antonio, est si fatigué par deux Dames qui le font danser tour á tour, qu'il est contraint de se coucher par terre. L'amour que'elles lui témoignent malicieusement, leur attire son indignatión". |