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Title
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[Of the Polishing of Virgins]
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Description
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A woman sits on a grassy hill in a white dress and satin belt, with her right hand on her chest and her left leaning against the ground. She looks off into the distance on the right as a woman standing behind her places a garland of flowers on her head. On the left two more women aid the virgin dress lavishly, one wears a bun and points towards the one on the right while the other with shoulder length hair fiddles with a string of acorns. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "Poetry, Signor hidalgo, I take to be like a tender virgin, very young and extremely beautiful, whom divers other virgins, namely, all the other sciences, make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them all, and on her part to give lustre to them all."
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Image Creator
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Andrew Rossington (Illustrator)
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Leloir (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:26057
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Source Name
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Don Quixote De La Mancha
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Image
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mta_26057_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Clothing and dress
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Fiction
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Virgin
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Legends
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Flowers
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Spain