John Vanderbank

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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Don Quixote Doing Penance in Honor of the Lady Dulcinea
Brush and several shades of brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on paper washed with light brown.
10 15/16 x 7 7/8 inches (278 x 201 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
1975.17:13
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Removed from an extra-illustrated edition of Cervantes's "Don Quixote de la Mancha", London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 (PML 4039-4047). The edition contained sixty-four sheets by Vanderbank for the engraved plates, one drawing for the tailpiece, and a design by Thomas Rowlandson for the frontispiece to volume II (1975.17:66).
Preparatory design for plate 17.

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Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash along lower margin, "J. Vanderbank. Fecit. 1729".

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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

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