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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Don Quixote Orders the Freed Galley Slaves to Throw Themselves at Dulcinea's Feet
Brush and several shades of brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on paper tinted with a light brown wash.
10 13/16 x 7 11/16 inches (275 x 195 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
1975.17:11
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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 15.
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Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash at lower left, "J. Vanderbank. Fecit. 1729".
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
Associated names:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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