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Title
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The Enchanted Bust
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Description
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In Don Antonio's home, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, Don Antonio's wife, two of her friends, two of Don Antonio's friends were led by Don Antonio into a sparsely decorated room with a lone table and a roman styled bust upon the table. Don Antonio talks to the head and it talks back, having been elaborately installed so a person talking from the room above may project their voice to come from within the voice through copper tubing. The head stands upon a table and frame, the legs of which resemble four eagle claws, carved from wood and varnished to look like jasper. The head, which looked like the bust of a roman emperor was of a brass color and hollow on the inside. Quixote, clad in full armor pictured to the right of the bust asks about Dulcinea de Toboso and Sancho Panza, pictured to the left of the bust whispering into its ear asks the head about whether he will ever come to govern his own house once more.
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Image Creator
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B. Lane (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:25162
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Source Name
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The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
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Image
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Subject
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Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates
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Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)
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Knights and knighthood in art
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Practical jokes
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Tricks
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Literature
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