The scene from Book 3, Chapter 8 in which Sancho is shown removing the fetters from Gines de Pasamonte's wrist. Quixote is on horseback, a lance braced under his arm as he confronts his opponent whose sword is posed to strike
Alternative Title:
Freeing of the galley slaves
Description:
Title from original print on which this copy is based. See Paulson., Title from Paulson: Freeing of the galley slaves., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Page 316. Don Quixote. Pl. 6."--Above image., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 97., and On page 88 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Lancers, Rescues, Enslaved people, and Swords & daggers
"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title from original Hogarth print. Added titles from Paulson., "Page 315. Don Quixote. Pl. 5."--Above image., An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 96., and On page 88 in volume 1.
"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title from later state., Title from Paulson: The adventure of Mambrino's helmet., State and publisher from Paulson., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,1.238., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Vol. I. p. 155"--Lower left, below image. Should be p. 115., and Trimmed within platemark and with large brown stain lower right. Contemporary ms. note on verso in brown ink, with loss to text: 3 prints from Don Quixot [sic] by Hoga[rth].
Opposite page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Tobias Smollett's Edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' (volume I, page 111); at night, Don Quixote with his foot on the chest of the unhorsed barber, threatens to kill him with a spear; Sancho watching at left with a bird in his hand, a carriage and figures fleeing behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote : translated from the Spanish ... by T. Smollett ... London : Printed for A. Millar [etc.], 1755., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text from end of printmaker's signature., "Vol. 1, pag. 111"--Upper left corner., Folded to 23.3 x 18.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
A. Millar etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by cataloger., Date based other drawings signed, dated, and executed by F. James for Harrison and Co., and Profile of a man in pencil on left margin.
"A young man in 17th century dress, in an oval, half-length facing front, looking to left, drawing back his hooded cloak with right hand to show tasselled collar and waistcoat, with left hand raised to his long hair drawn over left shoulder; from a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield;' state before character's name and quotation."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0809.494.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs
An etching from a broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762), showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Title supplied from letterpress broadside. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Cf. No. 4009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792