A pen and ink and wash drawing showing Don Quixote fighting another man on horseback, while Sancho Panza in the left corner is releasing a man in handcuffs. Contained within an ink line border, roughly incised in places.

This drawing is one of two preparatory studies by Hogarth in the Royal Collection for six prints relating to a 1738 edition of Miguel de Cervante's Don Quixote. The designs were never released with the edition, and instead released later with two extras as a set of eight prints. This drawing is for the print entitled Don Quixote releasing the Galley-Slaves, intended for Book III, Chapter viii. In 1726 Hogarth was invited to submit designs for a new edition of Don Quixote sponsored by Lord Carteret. However, the publication was delayed and by 1738 the publisher Jacob Tonson had selected different designs by Gerard Vandergucht. Hogarth's plates were subsequently acquired by Boydell, and the prints were issued as a set from 1790.

A drawing for another plate, The Curate and Barber Disguising Themselves, is RCIN 913490. The two drawings show Hogarth's use of media for different effects in preparing his designs for printing.