click to enlarge
In the background, the barber running away.
Well-known scene; not too much original.
Drawing and engraving with little quality.
Deficient printing/preservation.
2 - Placed as frontispiece.
|
click to enlarge |
|
| Image | 1810-Paris-02-001-f |
| Illustration No. | 1 2 3 4 |
| Illustrator | Claude? Lefebvre (copied after) |
| Engraver | Macret (possibly, Jean César Macret) |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote ordering Sancho to pick up Mambrino's helmet |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 21 |
| Subject |
21.3 Adventure of the helmet of Mambrino |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | II |
| Page Number | f. title page |
| Image Dimension | 97 x 62 (complete illus.); 48 x 32 (vignette) |
| Page Dimension | 142 x 90 |
| Commentary | By order of don Quixote, Sancho picks up Mambrino's helmet (a barber basin).
In the background, the barber running away. Well-known scene; not too much original. Drawing and engraving with little quality. Deficient printing/preservation. |
| Notes | 1 - Copy with little quality after Lefebvre's illustration (Paris: Didot-Deterville, 1799); also previously copied by Bigant for Paris: Chez Gide, 1806 and Paris: H. Nicolle, 1809.
2 - Placed as frontispiece. |