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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Two Fighting Horsemen
Brush and several shades of brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on paper washed with light brown.
5 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (140 x 143 mm)
1975.17:65
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Watermark: none.
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 the engraved tailpiece in volume I of Lord Carteret's 1738 Spanish edition of "Don Quixote de la Mancha".
Inscription:
Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash at lower left, "Jno Vanderbank. Fecit. Demb. 22. 1729".
Associated names:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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