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The setting is totally wrong; it should be a landscape, not a library.
Drawing and engraving done to look archaic, simple and clumsy.
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| Image | 1936-Guixols-Viader-01-033 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Unknown (copied after Diego de Obregón) |
| Engraver | Unknown |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Dialogue between the canon and don Quixote about chivalric books |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 49 |
| Subject |
49.2 Advice of canon to DQ and response of DQ in defense of chivalric books (libros de caballerías) |
| Illustration Type |
Vignette |
| Technique |
Wood engraving or Xylography |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | Fol. 131v |
| Image Dimension | 93 x 155 |
| Page Dimension | 307 x 237 |
| Commentary | Don Quixote and the canon of Toledo talking about chivalric books; also Sancho observing them.
The setting is totally wrong; it should be a landscape, not a library. Drawing and engraving done to look archaic, simple and clumsy. |
| Notes | 1 – Copied after the illustration for Barcelona: Juan Jolis, 1755 (and 1762), copied after Madrid: Antonio Sanz, 1735, badly copied after Diego de Obregón’s illustration (Madrid: Andrés García de la Iglesia, 1674). |