Don Quixote kneels in armour to embrace the leg of a country girl whom he believes to be the heroine Dulcinea; Sancho Panza kneels beside him. Line engraving after C.A. Coypel.

  • Coypel, Charles-Antoine, 1694-1752.
Date:
1840
Reference:
3005076i
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About this work

Description

An episode in "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Publication/Creation

London (44 Paternoster Row) : Published by John Williams, 1840.

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; platemark ca. 32 x 30.6 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Don Quixote takes a country girl for Dulcinea. Car. Coypel pinx. Bears number on accompanying sheet: VIII

Notes

With: a sheet of printed text summarising the story, and the text of Cervantes in Spanish, English and French

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3005076i

Creator/production credits

In reverse after an engraving by Jean Baptiste Haussard after a tapestry design by Charles Antoine Coypel

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Where to find it

  • fascicule of prints bound together

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