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| Image | 1776-1778-Carlsruhe-Buchhandlung-02-002-e |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Daniel-Nicolas Chodowiecki (copied after) |
| Engraver | Georg-Joseph Coentgen (?) |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote fighting against the wineskins |
| 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 | II |
| Page Number | f. title page |
| Image Dimension | 128 x 73 |
| Page Dimension | 170 x 105 |
| Commentary | Well-known scene.
In the foreground, don Quixote, asleep and with a blanket around his arm, fights with the wineskins. In the background, the innkeeper ready to beat him; Sancho Panza, the barber, the priest and others observe them. Sancho's face is grotesque, deformed, influenced by German tradition. Drawing and engraving with little quality; bad printing/preservation. |
| Notes | 1 – Copied after Chodowiecki's plate for Weimar/Leipzig: Fritschischen Buchhandlung, 1775.
2 - Placed as frontispiece. 3 - Unsigned plate. |