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The composition is simple, but theatrical (great canopy).
Drawing and engraving with little quality.
Deficient printing/preservation.
2 - Placed as frontispiece.
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| Image | 1810-Paris-04-001-f |
| Illustration No. | 1 2 3 4 |
| Illustrator | Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (copied after) |
| Engraver | Macret (possibly, Jean César Macret) |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | The priest and barber visit don Quixote |
| Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
| Chapter | Chapter 1 |
| Subject |
1.1 Priest and barber visit DQ to check if he is cured of his madness |
| Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
| Technique |
Burin engraving |
| Color | Black and white |
| Volume | IV |
| Page Number | f. title page |
| Image Dimension | 97 x 63 (complete illus.); 48 x 32 (vignette) |
| Page Dimension | 142 x 90 |
| Commentary | The barber and the priest talk with don Quixote to check if he is sane or insane, while the housekeeper and the niece observe them.
The composition is simple, but theatrical (great canopy). Drawing and engraving with little quality. Deficient printing/preservation. |
| Notes | 1 - Copy with little quality after Le Barbier'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. |