John Vanderbank

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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Altesidora Lying as Dead in a Solemn Scene
Brown washes, with opaque white, over graphite, on paper washed with light brown.
10 7/8 x 7 13/16 inches (277 x 199 mm)
1975.17:59
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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 63.

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Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash at lower left, "Jno Vanderbank. Fecit. 1729".

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

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