Description
This print shows Sancho’s arrival on the island of Barataria. Sancho is carried on the shoulders of two men into a town. A scene from Cervantes’ novel Don Quichote, depiction Don Quichote’s hallucinatory perception of the world. From a series of engravings illustrating Don Quichote, probably based on a series of 28 tapestries that Coypel designed for Gobelins. This highly succesful series was produced continuously between 1714 and 1794.
Made by Nicolas Henry Tardieu after Charles-Antoine Coypel.
Medium: Etching / engraving on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 38 x 36.5 cm (14.96 x 14.37 inch). Image size: 33.8 x 27.5 cm. (13.31 x 10.83 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Smudges. Diagonal fold. Fold in lower right corner. Creasing amd light soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
SANCHO-DON QUICHOTE-BARATARIA-CERVANTES | RBOS-T35-LARGE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published by Louis Surugue (French, Paris ca. 1686?1762 Grand Vaux) in 1724.
Biography engraver: Nicolas Henry Tardieu (French, Paris 1674?1749 Paris) was an engraver.
Biography artist: Charles-Antoine Coypel, (Paris, 1694 – Paris, 1752) was a painter.
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