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Image | 1820-Paris-Renouard-01-001-f |
Illustration No. | 1  2 3 4 |
Illustrator | Claude? Lefebvre (copied after) |
Engraver | Unknown |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | |
Title Supplied | Don Quixote touched by Folly |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 1 |
Subject |
1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels 1.2 Alonso Quixano (AQ) becomes the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (DQ) |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f. title page |
Image Dimension | 92 x 62 (complete illus.); 44 x 30 (vignette) |
Page Dimension | 136 x 84 |
Commentary | Don Quixote reading chivalry books at his library; arms on the floor; the greyhound next to him.
Folly touchs don Quixote's head with her scepter and, among dark clouds, don Quixote's fantasies appear: a devil with blown bladders (like the bojiganga; 11:2), monsters, hybrid beings... Scene conceived halfway through the 18th century allegorical frontispieces and the Romanticism imaginative illustrations. Drawing and engraving with little quality. |
Notes | 1 - Copy with fewer details after Lefebvre's illustration (Paris: Didot-Deterville, 1799); also previously copied by Bigant for Paris: Chez Gide, 1806 and Paris: H. Nicolle, 1809 and by Macret for Paris: Briand, 1810.
2 - Placed as frontispiece. 3 - Same plate first engraved for Paris: Renouard, 1812. |