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Image | 1746-Hage-Hondt-01-007 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Bernard Picart |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Don Quichotte prend le bassin d'un barbier pour l'armet de Mambrin |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 21 |
Subject |
21.3 Adventure of the helmet of Mambrino |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 43 |
Image Dimension | 193 x 150 |
Page Dimension | 272 x 220 |
Commentary | In the foreground, don Quixote, with great dignity, puts the barber basin on his head, while Sancho Panza laughs.
In the background, the barber running away and leaving his mule fallen. Well-detailed drawing and engraving. See rainbow in the background; it has rained at the beginning of this episode. Picart has accentuated this rain (not so evident in Coypel's original illustration) with fine burin lines. Drawing and engraving are masterly. |
Notes | 1 - Plate V (in the French edition, the plates aren't numbered).
2 - Signature and caption re-engraved. 3 - Copied by Picart after Coypel's original illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30). Now, the composicion has been turned and the format is vertical, so the engraver has enlarged the trees and the sky. 4 - Picart has eliminated two women that appeared on the right (now left) side of Coypel´s illustration; these two women do not belong to Cervantes' text, so now the illustration is more accurate. 5 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before. |