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25.4 SP’s embassy to Dulcinea;
25.5 DQ performs mad acts
Accurate to Cervantes' text, Sancho holds a broom bunch.
Well-known scene since Savery (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657).
Good engraving.
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| Image | 1809-Londres-Didier-01-008 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Claude? Lefebvre (copied after) |
| Engraver | Unknown |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | Ne garda que fa chemife et fit enfuite deux Sauts en l'air et deux Culbutes la tête en bas. |
| Title Supplied | |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 25 |
| Subject |
25.1 DQ as Beltenebros proposes to do penance for Dulcinea 25.4 SP’s embassy to Dulcinea; 25.5 DQ performs mad acts |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | II (tomes 1 and 2 bound together) |
| Page Number | f.p. 155 |
| Image Dimension | 92 x 55 |
| Page Dimension | 133 x 80 |
| Commentary | In Sierra Morena, before Sancho leaves for El Toboso mounted on Rocinante to take to Dulcinea don Quixote's love letter, the knight makes some somersaults (love penance).
Accurate to Cervantes' text, Sancho holds a broom bunch. Well-known scene since Savery (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657). Good engraving. |
| Notes | 1 - Copied after the illustration first-published in Paris: Didot L'aîné-Deterville, 1799. |