Don Quixote in 18th Century British Book Culture: Tobias Smollett and Francis Hayman

Katritzky, M. A. (2023). Don Quixote in 18th Century British Book Culture: Tobias Smollett and Francis Hayman. In: Jones, Richard J ed. Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: Life, Writing, Reputation. Eighteenth-Century Moments. Clemson SC: Clemson University Press, pp. 59–76.

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Abstract

The portraitist, history painter and book illustrator Francis Hayman (1708 – 1776) produced the drawings for the twenty-eight engravings illustrating the original 1755 edition of Tobias Smollett’s Don Quixote translation, published with Smollett’s editorial notes and ‘Life of Cervantes’. In the late 1760s, Hayman also painted a series of oil sketches relating to his Don Quixote book illustrations. Drawing on my recent work on early modern transnational receptions of Don Quixote, and current researches into William Hogarth, book illustration and Don Quixote, my chapter revisits the impact of Don Quixote on eighteenth-century British book culture with particular attention to Smollett and Hayman’s 1755 illustrated edition.

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