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Image 1836-1837-Paris-Dubochet-01-102 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Tony Johannot 
Engraver Jacques-Adrien Lavieille & Henri Désiré Porret 
Lithographer  
Title Caption  
Title Supplied Sancho counts don Quixote's teeth 
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter Chapter 18 
Subject 18.2 SP counting DQ’s teeth
 
Illustration Type Vignette
 
Technique Wood engraving or Xylography
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number 237 
Image Dimension 123 x 90 
Page Dimension 250 x 165 
Commentary After being stoned by the shepherds, don Quixote asks Sancho to count his teeth.
The realism of the illustration reinforces the humour of the text, but Johannot has not chosen the moment of cruder humour (don Quixote and Sancho vomiting).
Drawing and engraving are quite remarkable; the figures are highly detailed, both as real portraits. 
Notes Jacques-Adrien Lavieille (Paris, 1818 – Paris, 1862): Wood engraver. He was brother of the painter Eugène Lavieille (Paris, 1820 – Paris, 1889). He has been considered as one of the best wood engraver in the 1830’s. He received his artistical instruction in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Tony Johannot; Porret was his master. In 1837, he traveled to England, where he worked for chez Williams; then, he returned to France and worked for several illustrated magazines as L’Artiste or Magasin pittoresque. In 1842, Lavieille accompanied Horace Vernet to Russia and there he was offered to be a professor in the Academy of Saint Petersburg, but he rejected it. He engraved for Romans d’Eugène Sue, Les Faits mémorables de l’Histoire de France (1845), Dore’s designs for Balzac’s Les Contes dròlatiques, Ch. Jacques’ designs for an album of rustic subjects and Les quatre parties du jour after J. F. Millet. Lavieille, who met some of the Barbizon masters, exposed in the Salon between 1848 and 1859 and he was awarded with a medal in 1849 and 1859 (Benezit VI, 492).