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Image | 1768-Amsterdam-Merkus-05-006 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Simon Fokke (?) |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Don Quichotte est delivré de sa folie par la sagesse. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 74 |
Subject | |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | V |
Page Number | f.p. 343 |
Image Dimension | 125 x 77 |
Page Dimension | 166 x 102 |
Commentary | Allegorical scene of great beauty.
In a room, don Quixote, asleep, is protected by Wisdom (as Athena among shining clouds); his arms and barber basin remain abandoned. On the right, Sancho, awake, is captivated by Folly (with a jester scepter among dark clouds), who shows him a crown and a castle (the promised government of the island). Drawing and engraving are masterly. |
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 XXXII. 4 - According to the "AVIS AU RELIEUR Pour placer les Figures" (vol. VI), it should be placed f.p. 443 in vol. V, but vol. V only has 420 pages. 5 - It has been placed in chapter 32:3, but it refers to chapter 74:2. |