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25.5 DQ performs mad acts
Don Quixote's arms hung on a tree.
Drawing and engraving are poor.
2 – Bad copy after Savery’s plate (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657).
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| Image | 1699-Amsterdam-deCoup-01-012 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Jacob Savery (copied after) |
| Engraver | Unknown |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Doin Quixote begins his love penance |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 25 |
| Subject |
25.4 SP’s embassy to Dulcinea; 25.5 DQ performs mad acts |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I (vols. 1 and 2 bound together) |
| Page Number | f.p. 182 |
| Image Dimension | 117 x 66 |
| Page Dimension | 170 x 105 |
| Commentary | Sancho, with a huge broom bunch (accurate to Cervantes' text), leaves for El Toboso mounted on Rocinante, while don Quixote remains doing penance (half-naked, doing a somersault in an undecorous manner).
Don Quixote's arms hung on a tree. Drawing and engraving are poor. |
| Notes | 1 - Same plate first used for Amsterdam: Willem van Lamsveld, 1696.
2 – Bad copy after Savery’s plate (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657). |