drawing; print study; album

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Object Type: drawing; print study; album
Museum number: 1859,0611.354
Description: The Page presenting Sancho's letter to his wife and daughter, illustration to 'The History and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote', translated by Tobias Smollett, 1755, from an album containing 29 finished drawings; a horse peering over a gate to right, a well in the left foreground Pen and grey ink and grey-brown wash, heightened with white (oxidised), over black chalk
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Production date: 1755
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Dimensions: Height: 214 millimetres; Width: 173 millimetres
Curator's comments: Engraved, in reverse, by Simon-François Ravenet, in Vol. II, p. 311. See also 1859-6-11-331 for a description of the album.
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Location: Not on display
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Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Andrew Millar; Previous owner/ex-collection: Lady Jane Grant; Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry Fulton (1814)
Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1859,0611.354

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