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Accurate details to Cervantes' text: Teresa holds a tow ball.
Teresica should appear barefoot.
Bucolic setting; small illustration, with good drawing and engraving.
2 - Wrongly placed in chapter 45:2.
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| Image | 1810b-Paris-Briand-06-004 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier |
| Engraver | François Godefroy |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | Vous êtes la trés digne épouse d'un trés illustre gouverneur. |
| 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 |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | VI |
| Page Number | f.p. 76 |
| Image Dimension | 95 x 53 |
| Page Dimension | 128 x 76 |
| Commentary | The Duchess' page, knelt, takes letters and presents to Teresa Panza: "una sarta de corales con extremos de oro" (50:2).
Accurate details to Cervantes' text: Teresa holds a tow ball. Teresica should appear barefoot. Bucolic setting; small illustration, with good drawing and engraving. |
| Notes | 1 - Same plate first engraved for Paris: Didot L'Aîné-Deterville, 1799, now without frames. Also without frames in Paris: H. Nicolle, 1808.
2 - Wrongly placed in chapter 45:2. |