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| Image | 1810-Paris-01-001-f |
| Illustration No. | 1  2 3 4 |
| Illustrator | Claude? Lefebvre (copied after) |
| Engraver | Macret (possibly, Jean César Macret) |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote reading chivalry books with Folly |
| Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
| Chapter | Chapter 1 |
| Subject |
1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels 1.2 Alonso Quixano (AQ) becomes the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (DQ) |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | I |
| Page Number | f. title page |
| Image Dimension | 97 x 62 (complete illus.); 48 x 32 (vignette) |
| Page Dimension | 142 x 90 |
| Commentary | Don Quixote reading chivalry books at his library; arms on the floor; the greyhound next to him.
Folly touchs don Quixote's head with her scepter and, among dark clouds, don Quixote's fantasies appear: a devil with blown bladders (like the bojiganga; 11:2), monsters, hybrid beings... Scene conceived halfway through the 18th century allegorical frontispieces and the Romanticism imaginative illustrations. Drawing and engraving with little quality. Very deficient printing/preservation. |
| Notes | 1 - Copy with little quality after Lefebvre's illustration (Paris: Didot-Deterville, 1799); also previously copied by Bigant for Paris: Chez Gide, 1806 and Paris: H. Nicolle, 1809.
2 - Placed as frontispiece. |