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| Image | 1830-Paris-Ledoyen-01-001-p |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Louis Choquet |
| Engraver | Suxinot |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | CERVANTES |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | |
| Chapter | |
| Subject | |
| Illustration Type |
Portrait |
| Technique |
Burin engraving Stipple / Crayon manner |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | f. title page |
| Image Dimension | 105 x 75 |
| Page Dimension | 132 x 82 |
| Commentary | Cervantes' portrait in a frame with several symbols about his life as a soldier (sword, lance, shield), about pastoral literature (crook, basket, syrinx) and about Don Quixote (Cupid holding a jester scepter and a barber basin, a windmill).
Good drawing and engraving. |
| Notes | 1 - Same plate first used for Paris: Delongchamps, 1824.
2 - "... Choquet, al dibujar la imagen del autor del Quijote, pinta, sin saberlo, bajo la influencia de un ambiente que está a mil leguas de la tradición clásica. Ese Cervantes suyo, mucho más joven que los anteriores, con el pelo negrísimo y medio ensortijado, los ojos grandes y melancólicos, la tez casi negra y el bigote y la barba ralos y lacios, no tiene nada de europeo: es un personaje africano" (Givanel 35). |