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Image 1768-Amsterdam-Merkus-05-004 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) 
Engraver Simon Fokke (?) 
Lithographer  
Title Caption Don Quichotte consulte la teste enchantée chez Don Antonio Moreno. 
Title Supplied  
Part Part II, Madrid 1615  
Chapter Chapter 62 
Subject 62.4 Episode of the enchanted head
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f.p. 330 
Image Dimension 125 x 77 
Page Dimension 166 x 102 
Commentary Characters are divided in three groups:
On the right, the main one; surrounding the enchanted head (as a Roman bust), don Quixote thoughtful, Sancho astonished, don Antonio and two friends.
On the left, in the foreground and in the background, two more groups that balance the composition.
Well-detailed representation of a 18th century bourgeois French house (paintings, furniture, sculptures, carpets...).
Theatrical scene with excellent drawing and engraving. 
Notes 1 - Copy after Coypel's design (first appeared in Paris: Surugue, c. 1735; 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 XXXI.
4 - Well-placed f.p. 330 according to the "AVIS AU RELIEUR Pour placer les Figures" (vol. VI), but this illustration refers to chapter 62:2 and it´s placed in 32:3.
5 - Plate XXXI appears before plate XXX.