CHODOWIECKI, Daniel Nikolaus
(b. 1726, Danzig, d. 1801, Berlin)

Illustration for Don Quixote

1766
Etching, 168 x 108 mm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Don Quixote, fully titled El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moorish historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli. The work was published in two volumes: the first in 1605, and the second in 1614.




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