[Quixote being cared for by the innkeeper's wife and daughter] [graphic]

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Title: [Quixote being cared for by the innkeeper's wife and daughter] [graphic]
Creator: Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: published March 1798.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An illlustration for Book 3, Chapter 2 in which the old innkeeper's wife (wearing spectacles) attends to Quixote's wounds; the daugher stands to the left with medicines in her hand. The torch is being held by Maritornes. An owl sits on a rafter above the bed. Quixote's armor hangs an a hook above his head. Sancho stands on the right his left arm on his right shoulder
Description: Title from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Page 313. Don Quixote. Pl. 4."--Above image.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 95.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.3 x 12 cm, on sheet 15.6 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic): Daughters
Eyeglasses
Mothers
Nursing
Owls
Wounds & injuries
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Illustrations
Daughters
Eyeglasses
Mothers
Nursing
Owls
Wounds & injuries
England > London > 1798
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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