THE ADVENTURE OF DON QUIXOTE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIR JOHN GILBERT AND OTHER ARTISTS, 1st Part

Sir John Gilbert RA (21 July 1817 – 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver. 

 

                                                                    Self-portrait, 1872.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don Quixote—Prepares for his adventures-—Sets out—is dubbed knight. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In search of adventures—His first redress of wrongs—Adventure with the merchants of Toledo—Brought home, battered and bruised —His friends burn his books of chivalry

 

 

 

 

 

 Sets out again with his squire Sancho Panza—Adventure with the windmill—With the monks and Biscainer—Entertained by the goatherds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Beaten with pack-staves—Takes the inn for a castle—Mishap at the inn—Balsam of Fierabras—Sancho tossed in a blanket.

  

 

 

 

Don Quixote attacks the flock of sheep—The fulling-hammers—Sancho“makes game” of his master, and suffers for it.

 

 

 

 

 

Mambrino’s helmet—Adventure of the galley-slaves—Sancho's ass stolen from under him

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Don Quixote does penance in the Sierra Morena, or Sable Mountain—The Knights letter to Dulcinea del Toboso—Sancho’s account of his visit to Dulcinea, whom he had never seen.