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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Don Quixote (1)

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Original - Gustave Doré's first illustration for Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote, showing Alonso Quixano in his library, surrounded by romances and the ideas from the romances which infested his brain, causing the insane obsession which resulted in him reinventing himself as Don Quixote.
Reason
One of the more iconic images of Don Quixote.
Articles this image appears in
Gustave Doré (as gallery image), Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes
Creator
Gustave Doré

Image restoration notes: Very little to fix here, which is good, seeing that I couldn't upload the original due to size issues.

Promoted File:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Plate 1 "A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination".jpg --wadester16 03:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]