Juanes & the Goose from Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote by Henry D. Inglis
George Cruikshank
British, 1792–1878
1837
In this etching George Cruikshank turns a comic episode from Don Quixote into a compact, lucid illustration meant to amuse and guide readers through the tale.
A jewel-like vignette sits at the sheet’s center: tight cross-hatching carves a shadowed stone vault where a tense young figure leans over a table and a larger, slumped man reclines, creating an intimate, theatrical moment.
Prints like this show how nineteenth‑century illustrators distilled literary episodes into single, readable images, shaping the visual language of popular books and readers’ imaginings of classic stories.
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 8 × 5 3/16" (20.3 × 13.1 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 11/16" (30 × 22 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
770.1964.5
Palette
Exhibitions
