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- Creator:
- Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- 33 10B v.7 Copy 4
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Illustration from Don Quixote
- 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., and 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.
- Publisher:
- A. Millar etc.
- Subject (Name):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
- Subject (Topic):
- Spears, Threats, Horses, and Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Don Quixote threatening the barber with a spear] [graphic]
