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Title
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Don Quixote Descending into the Cave of Montesinos
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Description
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In the afternoon, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the Scholar who served as their guide arrived at the the mouth of the cave, which they found to be wide and spacious, but so much overgrown with briars, thorns , and wild fig trees, as to be almost concealed . The scholar and Sancho proceeded to bind a cord around Don Quixote. The knight was well bound over his doublet. Thinking Quixote safely secured, the scholar (pictured looking down at Quixote and holding the rope) and Sancho (pictured closest to Quixote and shifting his weight backwards) let him down into the cavern; and, as he entered, Sancho gave him his blessing. Don Quixote looks down at the darkness below him having only brought with him his helmet and his sword.
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Image Creator
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Robert Smirke (Illustrator)
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F. Engleheart (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:25511
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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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mta_25511_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates
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Knights and knighthood in art
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Caves
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Spain
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Scholars
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Fiction
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Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)