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s1725-London-VanderGucht-001 |
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Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after)
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Gerard van der Gucht (?)
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Don Quixot believes he is to Receive in the Inn the Order of Knighthood |
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Part I, Madrid 1605
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Chapter 3 |
3.4 DQ knighted at inn by innkeeper
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Chapter illustration
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Burin engraving
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Black and white |
I |
f.p. 12 |
271 x 287 |
329 x 333 |
Accurate to Cervantes' text, the innkeeper, holding a sword and a book, knights don Quixote, knelt before him.
Doña Tolosa (figure of great beauty) holds don Quixote's sword and doña Molinera a shield (it should be the spurs).
It also appears the boy with a candle.
The other two women (the one next to a well is remarkbale), do not belong to Cervantes' text.
Drawing and engraving of excellent quality; female figures of great beauty; precise burin lines. |
1 - Wrongly included in chapter 2:1; it belongs to 3:1.
2 - From set "Sold by G. Vander Gucht in Queen Street Bloomsbury" (London, c. 1725 or later).
3 - Copy engraved by Gerard van der Gucht? after Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, 1724); the composition has been turned in comparison with Coypel's, but they both have the same large horizontal format.
4 - Print included in Cushing's extra-illustrated copy of John Bowle's edition (Salisbury: 1781). |