print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1389
- Description
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Illustration to Tobias Smollett's Edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' (volume II, page 80); Don Quixote standing with sword poised at right, prevented from killing the knight of the mirrors by the squire of the nose, kneeling between them. 1755
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1755
- Dimensions
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Height: 277 millimetres
- $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
- 1867,0309.1389
