print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1388
- Description
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Illustration to Tobias Smollett's Edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' (volume I, number nine, page 211); Dorothea kneeling in the centre, is taken by Don Quixote standing at right, as the Princess Miromicona; armour hanging on the tree at right. 1755
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1755
- Dimensions
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Height: 278 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 182 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Don Quixote
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- The BM purchased at the sale from the prints sold in bundles rather than in individual lots. It bought lots 47, 106, 352 and 431 in their entirely. It also made selections from lots 1,2,3,5,11,49,50,75,93,107,108,115,116,162,358. It is not easy from the register to work out which prints belonged to which lot.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0309.1388
