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The setting is totally wrong; it should be a landscape, not a library.
Simple drawing and clumsy engraving.
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| Image | 1762-Barcelona-Jolis-02-010 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Diego de Obregón (copied after) |
| Engraver | Unknown |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote talking with the canon of Toledo |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 50 |
| Subject | |
| Illustration Type |
Vignette |
| Technique |
Woodcut |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | II |
| Page Number | 365 |
| Image Dimension | 61 x 78 |
| Page Dimension | 146 x 103 |
| Commentary | Don Quixote and the canon of Toledo talking about chivalry novels; also Sancho observing them.
The setting is totally wrong; it should be a landscape, not a library. Simple drawing and clumsy engraving. |
| Notes | 1 – Same wooden block first cut for Barcelona: Juan Jolis, 1755, copied after Madrid: Antonio Sanz, 1735, badly copied after Diego de Obregón’s illustration (Madrid: Andrés García de la Iglesia, 1674). |