Image	1798Madrid-Sancha-05-001
	Illustration No.	1
	Illustrator	Francisco Alcántara
	Engraver	Blas Ametller
	Lithographer
	Title Caption
	Title Supplied	Don Quixote talks to the barber and the priest
	Part	Part II, Madrid 1615
	Chapter	Chapter 1
	Subject	1.1 Priest and barber visit DQ to check if he is cured of his madness
	Illustration Type	Head vignette
	Technique	Etching (acquaforte) Burin engraving
	Color	Black and white
	Volume	V
	Page Number	1
	Image Dimension	43 x 53
	Page Dimension	132 x 90
	Commentary	Austere setting, but with an excellent composition and carefully done lighting. Figures distributed from the foreground to the background: first (on the right), the barber in shade; second (on the left), the priest in semi-darkness; third (on the left too), don Quixote well-lighted from the window in front of him; fourth (on the right), the housekeeper and the niece dissolved by the light before them. Accurate to Cervantes' text; "... y habló Don Quixote con tanta discrección en todas las materias que se tocaron, que los dos examinadores creyeron indubitadamente que estaba del todo bueno y en su entero juicio" (1:2). Excellent engraving (see the barber and the priest).
	Notes	It includes reference "P. 3". Blas Ametller (Barcelona, 1768 – Madrid, 1841): Designer and burin engraver. He was an assistant professor at the “Escuela de Artes” (Barcelona, 1787) and received a scholarship from the “Junta de Comercio” to study engraving in Madrid (1790–95) under Manuel Salvador Carmona. In 1793, San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid) awarded him with a first prize for engraving the portrait of “Ventura Rodríguez” after Goya’s painting and, in 1797, he was made an academician. He produced book illustrations, religious engravings and reproductions of paintings. He engraved the portraits of Goya, Murillo, Ribera and Velázquez. His success led to his appointment as “Grabador de Cámara” in 1815, in which position he executed a portrait of “Ferdinand VII” (1821) after Vicente López y Portaña’s drawings. After Salvador Carmona’s death in 1820, Ametller was made “Director de Grabado al buril” at the Royal Academy, a post he held until his death. He engraved plates for different “Don Quixote” editions (Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1797 – 1798; Madrid: Sancha, 1798 – 1799; Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1819) (Benezit I, 156; www.groveart.com).