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1949-Paris-Bordas-01-006 |
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré
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Héliodore Joseph Pisan (reproduced by porcess)
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Don Quichotte plongé dans la lecture des romans de chevalerie. |
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Part I, Madrid 1605
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Chapter 1 |
1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels
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Chapter illustration
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Process / Photomechanical technique
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Black and white |
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f.p. 188 |
127 x 100 |
215 x 135 |
One of the best known images of don Quixote becoming mad; while reading, the library begins to fill with small figures of errant knights fighting, maidens being captured, dragons, knights riding mice, castles, flying coats of arms... the curtain transforms into a giant's head. |
1 - Reproduced after Paris: Hachette, 1863. |