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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Sancho Searching the Room for Eavesdroppers Before Relating Don Quixote's History to the Duchess
Brush and several shades of brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on paper tinted with a light brown wash.
10 7/8 x 7 13/16 inches (276 x 198 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
1975.17:40
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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 44.
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Inscribed in point of brush and brown wash at lower left, "Jno Vanderbank. Fecit. August 30. 1729".
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
Associated names:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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