John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Cervantes as Hercules, Conducted by Satire and accompanied by the Muses, Goes up to Deliver Parnassus from Knight Errantry
11 x 7 3/4 inches (280 x 195 mm)
Brush and several shades of brown wash, with white opaque watercolor,over graphite, on paper tinted with a light brown wash.
1975.17:1
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
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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 the frontispiece to volume I.
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 the frontispiece to volume I.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash along lower margin, "Jno Vanderbank. Fecit. Septemb. 1. 1729".
Associated names
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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Century Drawings
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