click to enlarge
	Image	1797-1798-Madrid-Sancha-01-007
	Illustration No.	1
	Illustrator	Luis Paret y Alcázar
	Engraver	Juan Moreno Tejada
	Lithographer
	Title Caption
	Title Supplied	Cervantes is encouraged by a friend of him to write the prologue
	Part	Part I, Madrid 1605
	Chapter	03. Prologue
	Subject	03.1 Cervantes writing prologue/story 03.2 Cervantes and his “friend”
	Illustration Type	Head vignette
	Technique	Burin engraving
	Color	Black and white
	Volume	I
	Page Number	CCXXI
	Image Dimension	49 x 84
	Page Dimension	185 x 117
	Commentary	4. Viñeta, que representa á Cervantes, sentado en su estudio, suspenso, con el papel delante, la pluma en la oreja, el codo en el bufete, la mano en la mexilla, confuso, y pensando lo que diria en el prologo de la Historia; á cuyo tiempo entra un amigo suyo, y le saca de esta confusion suministrandole la materia con la que formó el Prologo. P.I.T.I.Pag. CCXXI" ("Esplicacion de la estampas". Vol. V, p. 427). Scene of great originality. Drawing and engraving of good quality. See hard realism to represent Cervantes one-handed.
	Notes	1 - Signed in 1796.