In Miquel Cervantes’ 1605 novel The Ingenious Low-Born Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, the great romantic Alanso Quixano decides to become a knight errant to revive chivalry. He adopts the name Don Quixote de la Mancha, recruits a farmer named Sancho Manza to be his squire, and embarks on great adventures, living what he envisions to be the life of a knight. The book was initially accepted as a comic novel, but it was in fact meant to be the opposite of what it seems to portray. Is Don Quixote living in an imaginary world, tilting at windmills, or is it the world that is actually upside down?
This 1843 etching by the great master Adolf Schrödter illustrates the most famous scene from the book in which Don Quixote tilts at windmills that he thinks are giants.
Medium:
Etching on heavy natural white wove paper Publisher:
Hermann & Friedrich Schaffstein, Cöln am Rhein, Germany Date:
1843 Signature:
Signed and dated in the plate Framing:
Custom matted and framed in an ornate wood frame behind 99% UV-blocking art glass using strictly conservation-grade materials. Condition:
Remarkably fine condition, without soiling or signs of handling. Well inked and excellent impression. Small margins, but as published. Modest foxing en verso. Frame Size:
17.375 in. (h) × 14.375 in. (w) × 1 in. (d) Window Size:
7.75 in. (h) × 6 in. (w)
Don Quixote’s Battle with the Windmills
$1,000.00
Adolf Schrödter (German)
Description
In Miquel Cervantes’ 1605 novel The Ingenious Low-Born Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, the great romantic Alanso Quixano decides to become a knight errant to revive chivalry. He adopts the name Don Quixote de la Mancha, recruits a farmer named Sancho Manza to be his squire, and embarks on great adventures, living what he envisions to be the life of a knight. The book was initially accepted as a comic novel, but it was in fact meant to be the opposite of what it seems to portray. Is Don Quixote living in an imaginary world, tilting at windmills, or is it the world that is actually upside down?
This 1843 etching by the great master Adolf Schrödter illustrates the most famous scene from the book in which Don Quixote tilts at windmills that he thinks are giants.
Additional information
Etching, Print
Fine Condition
Custom framed and matted using conservation materials
1800-1850
Details
Medium:
Etching on heavy natural white wove paper
Publisher:
Hermann & Friedrich Schaffstein, Cöln am Rhein, Germany
Date:
1843
Signature:
Signed and dated in the plate
Framing:
Custom matted and framed in an ornate wood frame behind 99% UV-blocking art glass using strictly conservation-grade materials.
Condition:
Remarkably fine condition, without soiling or signs of handling. Well inked and excellent impression. Small margins, but as published. Modest foxing en verso.
Frame Size:
17.375 in. (h) × 14.375 in. (w) × 1 in. (d)
Window Size:
7.75 in. (h) × 6 in. (w)
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