The Plaza Espana was very close to the hotel Mike stayed when he went on a painting trip to Madrid.  He did a first sketch of the magnificent Cervantes Memorial by sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera (1925 – 1930) on the evening of the first day.  But he was so taken with the statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza that he returned early the following morning to make a sketch of them in their own right.