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Image 1842-Mexico-Cumplido-01-074 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Hesiquio Iriarte (after Tony Johannot ) 
Engraver  
Lithographer Oficina Litotipográfica de Miguel Ángel Porrúa 
Title Caption  
Title Supplied Don Quixote refuses to help the innkeeper 
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter Chapter 44 
Subject 44.2 DQ’s cowardice to help the innkeeper
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Lithography
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f.p. 370 
Image Dimension 175 x 115 
Page Dimension 250 x 175 
Commentary The innkeeper's wife and Maritornes (sketched in the background) ask don Quixote to help the innkeeper, beaten by two guests, but don Quixote refuses to help him, because they are not knights; "poniendo mano a su espada, acudió a la puerta de la venta, adonde aún todavía traían los dos huéspedes a mal traer al ventero; pero, así como llegó, embazó y se estuvo quedo" (44:1).
The figures of the three men fighting are resolved with good realism. 
Notes 1 - Reprint of the original lithograph (Mexico: Masse y Decaen; I. Cumplido, 1842) after Johannot's design (Paris: Dubochet, 1836-37).