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Image | 1741-Paris-Clousier-et-al-03-005 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after by Bonard) |
Engraver | Unknown |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | |
Title Supplied | Don Quixote defeats the Knight of the Mirrors |
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. 165 |
Image Dimension | 120 x 70 |
Page Dimension | 167 x 97 |
Commentary | 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 fake big nose to show don Quixote who they really are, amazing Sancho. Perfectly-balanced composition. |
Notes | 1 - Same plate first used for Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1732, but now re-engraved very clumsily and with very little detail.
2 - Turned copy with a new vertical format after Coypel’s illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30). |