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Image with great expressive force; the scene suggests melancholy, sadness...
Excellent drawing and etching.
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| Image | 1910-Edinburgh-Grant-04-011 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Adolphe Lalauze |
| Engraver | Adolphe Lalauze |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | Don Quixote vanquished by the Knight of the White Moon |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
| Chapter | Chapter 64 |
| Subject |
64.1 DQ is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon (Sansón Carrasco) |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Etching (acquaforte) |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | IV |
| Page Number | f.p. 379 |
| Image Dimension | 135 x 97 |
| Page Dimension | 254 x 155 |
| Commentary | Well-known scene, but now resolved with remarkable composition only with the main characters: don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon (Sansón Carrasco) on Barcelona beach.
Image with great expressive force; the scene suggests melancholy, sadness... Excellent drawing and etching. |
| Notes | 1 - Same plate first engraved for Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1879-84. |