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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Altesidora, One of the Duchess' Waiting-Women, Falsely Accusing Don Quixote and Sancho of Having Stolen Three of Her Kerchiefs and Her Garters
Brown washes, with opaque white, over graphite, on laid paper washed with light brown.
10 15/16 x 7 13/16 inches (277 x 198 mm)
1975.17:50
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Removed from an extra-illustrated edition of Cervantes's "Don Quixote de la Mancha", London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 (PML 4039-4047). The edition contained sixty-four sheets by Vanderbank for the engraved plates, one drawing for the tailpiece, and a design by Thomas Rowlandson for the frontispiece to volume II (1975.17:66).
Preparatory design for plate 54.
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Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash at lower left, "Jno Vanderbank. Fecit. 1729".
Associated names:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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