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Image | 1768-Amsterdam-Merkus-03-004 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Simon Fokke (?) |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Le Bachelier Sanson Carasco, sous le nom du Chevalier des Miroirs, est vaincu par Don Quichotte qui lui ordonne d'aller se jetter aux pieds de Dulcinée. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 14 |
Subject |
14.2 DQ defeats the knight of the Mirrors |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | III |
Page Number | f.p. 151 |
Image Dimension | 125 x 77 |
Page Dimension | 166 x 102 |
Commentary | Perfectly-balanced composition.
Don Quixote, with a clemency gesture, orders the Knight of the Mirrors (Sansón Carrasco) to go and prostrate himself at the feet of Dulcinea. His squire, Tomé Cecial (left), takes off his false big nose to show don Quixote who they really are, amazing Sancho. Well-detailed drawing and engraving (see don Quixote's left hand gesture, clothes, armours). |
Notes | 1 - Copy after Coypel's design (first appeared in Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30; also copied for La Haye: Pierre de Hondt, 1746).
2 - Same plate first engraved for La Haye: P. Gosse & A. Moetjens, 1744; the references have been changed from Spanish into French and the signatures erased. 3 – Plate XII. |