[The curate & barber disguising themselves to convey D. Quixote home] [graphic]

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Title: [The curate & barber disguising themselves to convey D. Quixote home] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Curate and barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home
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: Interior scene with the two men in disquise, one looking in the mirror; a wallshelf with plates, antlers and escutcheon decorate the walls; a heap of clothes on the floor lower left. Through the open door to the outside can be seen a man drinking from a jug seated on a stool at a table under a tree
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Page 319. Don Quixote. Pl. 8."--Above image.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 99.
On page 87 in volume 1.
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 : sheet 156 x 115 mm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1738
Etchings England London 1738
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic): Barbers
Clergy
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Illustrations
Barbers
Clergy
England > London > 1738
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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