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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Sancho Feeling in Don Quixote's Mouth to See if He Has Any Teeth Left
Brush and several shades of brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on paper tinted with a light brown wash.
10 9/16 x 7 9/16 inches (269 x 193 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
1975.17:8
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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 plate 12.
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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.
Associated names:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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