Burin engraving
Bucolic scene; drawing and engraving are good (excellent details).
This illustration is more narrow than Carnicero's illustration, so Fittler has cut the right side of the plate.
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| Image | 1801London-04-004 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Antonio Carnicero (based on) |
| Engraver | James Fittler |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | The Page of the Dutchess delivering Sancho's letter to his wife Teresa |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
| Chapter | Chapter 50 |
| Subject |
50.1 Duchess’s page takes letter and presents to SP’s wife |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Etching (acquaforte) Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | IV |
| Page Number | f.p. 171 |
| Image Dimension | 137 x 91 |
| Page Dimension | 211 x 128 |
| Commentary | The page of the Duchess kneels before Teresa Panza and gives her letters and presents: "una sarta de corales con extremos de oro" (50:2). Accurate details to Cervantes' text: Teresa holds one tow ball and Teresica barefoot.
Bucolic scene; drawing and engraving are good (excellent details). |
| Notes | Highly detailed copy from Antonio Carnicero and Francisco Muntaner's illustration (Madrid: Ibarra, 1780), which was based on Vanderbank's composition (London: Tonson, 1738).
This illustration is more narrow than Carnicero's illustration, so Fittler has cut the right side of the plate. |