Un grand lac de poix-résine bouillant a gros bouillons dans lequel s'agitent une infinité d'animaux · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Un grand lac de poix-résine bouillant a gros bouillons dans lequel s'agitent une infinité d'animaux
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: The illustration represents part of the tale of the Knight of the Lake, as told by Don Quixote to the canon of Toledo in defense of chivalric novels: the Knight arrives at a great lake of boiling pitch in which swim snakes, serpents, lizards, and all manner of other fierce and fearsome creatures. Signed by G. Doré (illustrator) and H.-J. Pisan (engraver). Part 1, ch. 50.
Image Creator: Doré, Gustave (Illustrator); Pisan, Héliodore-Joseph (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:22185
Language: fre
Source Name: L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche
Parent Collection: 1863 Hachette Dore
Image: mta_22185_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Lakes; Monsters; Serpents; Chivalry; Storytelling