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Image | 1768-Amsterdam-Merkus-04-005 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Simon Fokke (?) |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Don Quichotte et Sancho, montés sur un Cheval de Bois, simaginent traverser les Airs, pour aller vanger Doloride. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 41 |
Subject |
41.1 Adventure of Clavileño 41.2 DQ and SP fly on Clavileño |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | IV |
Page Number | f.p. 83 |
Image Dimension | 125 x 77 |
Page Dimension | 166 x 102 |
Commentary | Don Quixote and Sancho mounted on Clavileño while several servants simulate its flight with bellows and torches; one of them has lighted its fuse.
The Duke and Duchess observe the scene. Set in a Versailles like garden (baroque architectures, hedges, one terminus...). Well-known composition since Savery (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657), but now it has been enriched. Light and shadow effects are remarkable. Excellent drawing and engraving. |
Notes | 1 - Copy after Coypel's design (first appeared in Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30; also copied for La Haye: Pierre de Hondt, 1746).
2 - Same plate first engraved for La Haye: P. Gosse & A. Moetjens, 1744; the references have been changed from Spanish into French and the signatures erased. 3 – Plate XXIII. |