"Sa pauvre tête n'étoit plus remplie que d'enchantemens de cartels & c…"

Title: "Sa pauvre tête n'étoit plus remplie que d'enchantemens de cartels & c…"
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: While Don Quixote reads chivalric novels, his library fills with devils, monsters and allegorical figures. The illustration masterfully combines reality (Don Quixote reading in his library), fantasy (adventures, monsters, and all other figments of his imagination), and allegory. Anecdotal detail from Cervantes’ text: skinny greyhound at Don Quixote’s feet and the errant knight’s arms, strewn about on the floor in the foreground. Unsigned. Part 1, ch. 1.
Image Creator: Lefebvre, Claude (Engraver); Masquelier, Louis-Joseph (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:22612
Language: fre
Source Name: Don Quichotte de la Manche
Parent Collection: 1808 Nicolle
Image: mta_22612_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Imagination; Fantasy; Chivalry

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