[Don Quixote threatening the barber with a spear] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Don Quixote threatening the barber with a spear] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Illustration from Don Quixote
Creator: Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
Contributor: Smollett, T. 1721-1771.
Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768, publisher.
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.
Published / Created: [1755]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: A. Millar etc.
Abstract: "Illustration to Tobias Smollett's Edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' (volume I, page 111); at night, Don Quixote with his foot on the chest of the unhorsed barber, threatens to kill him with a spear; Sancho watching at left with a bird in his hand, a carriage and figures fleeing behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Plate from: Cervantes S. The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote : translated from the Spanish ... by T. Smollett ... London : Printed for A. Millar [etc.], 1755.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text from end of printmaker's signature.
"Vol. 1, pag. 111"--Upper left corner.
Folded to 23.3 x 18.5 cm.
Bound in opposite page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Kirgate, with his manuscript notes in the volumes; probably sold by King and Lochée, 4 December 1810 (Kirgate Sale), lot 386, to Denley. Later owned by Robert Hartshorne of Highlands, NJ, with his bookplate in the first volume of the set. Parke-Bernet (Hartshorne sale, Lot 393) to Brick Row for W.S. Lewis; 30 October 1945.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.3 x 18.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 33 10B v.7 Copy 4
Collection Title: Opposite page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Collection / Other Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806.
Collection Date: London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.