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Etching (acquaforte)
Good engraving, but too dark.
2 - Unsigned.
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| Image | 1850-Paris-Baudry-01-007 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | José Rivelles (copied after) |
| Engraver | Villerey (?) |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote's dinner at the inn |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 2 |
| Subject |
2.4. DQ’s dinner at inn |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving Etching (acquaforte) |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | f.p. 8 |
| Image Dimension | 112 x 70 |
| Page Dimension | 214 x 130 |
| Commentary | In the center, the innkeeper giving don Quixote to drink with a cane through his helmet; at both sides, a boy with a lamp (taken from the scene of don Quixote knighted), doña Tolosa and doña Molinera; also the swineherd accurate to Cervantes' text; "llegó acaso a la venta un castrador de puercos, y así como llegó sonó su silbato de cañas cuatro o cinco veces" (2:1).
Good engraving, but too dark. |
| Notes | 1 - Same plate first engraved for Paris: Baudry, 1835 (after Rivelle's illustration for Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1819).
2 - Unsigned. |