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Don Quixote Fights a Lion

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1955 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Engraving Date: circa 1865 Pagination: 1 print : b&w ; Order a Copy

One engraving entitled Don Quixote Fights a Lion dated circa 1865. Depicts a scene from the novel Don Quixote in which he fights a lion that is in a cage on the back of a cart.

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