Image	1781London-Salisbury-01-002
	Illustration No.	1
	Illustrator	Henry Alken
	Engraver	John Christian Zeitter
	Lithographer
	Title Caption	He would draw his sword & fence, back stroke & fore stroke, with the walls; and when he was heartily tired, would say he had killed four Giants, as tall as so many steeples
	Title Supplied
	Part	Part I, Madrid 1605
	Chapter	Chapter 1
	Subject	1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels
	Illustration Type	Chapter illustration Frontispiece
	Technique	Etching (acquaforte)
	Color	Black and white
	Volume	I
	Page Number	f. title page
	Image Dimension	185 x 137
	Page Dimension	240 x 175
	Commentary	Don Quixote at his library, dressed with part of his armor and with his sword and surrounded by arms and books. He looks with mad eyes the book "Feliciano de Silva Don Belianis" (wrong title; Feliciano de Silva was the author of "Amadís de Grecia", not of "Historia del magnánimo, valiente e invencible don Belianís de Grecia", written by Jerónimo Hernández). Beginning of the Romantic image of don Quixote. Illustration of great pictorial valor; agile and spontaneous engraving.
	Notes	The engraver has used roulettes. Used as a frontispiece. Illustration from the set "Illustrations of Don Quixote: Designed by Henry Alken Engraved by John Zeitter. And Dedicated to the Memory of Cervantes", London: S. H. Hawkins, 1831. Sir Henry Alken (1785 – 1851): English painter, engraver and acquafortist. Son of artist Samuel Alken, he was specialized in hunting and sporting scenes. In 1801 and 1822 he exposed two portraits at the Royal Academy of London. Alken explores the comic side of riding in a series of prints depicting the follies and foibles of aristocrats on their weekend outings. He worked in London and the provinces and was prolific in a variety of media, including painting, etching and watercolor. Trained as a miniature painter, his works always had a graphic precision. He was employed by sporting periodicals as an illustrator and provided plates for the “National Sports of Great Britain” (London, 1821) (Benezit I, 116). John or Johann Christian Zeitter (¿? – London, 1862): Genre painter. Between 1824 and 1862 he exposed at London. He was known because of his Polish and Hungarian genre scenes, as “The Hungarian tinkers wedding”. He was a member of the Society of British Artists (1841) (Benezit X, 880).