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Altesidora Pretends to Faint Away at the Sight of Don Quixote

John Vanderbank
1694-1739

Altesidora Pretends to Faint Away at the Sight of Don Quixote

10 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (277 x 198 mm)
Brown washes, with opaque white, over graphite, on paper washed with light brown.
1975.17:43

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
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 47.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash at lower left, "Jno Vanderbank. Fecit. 1729".
Associated names
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department