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This article is part of my master's research in Language Studies occurred in the last two years. Our proposal was to study the illustrations of designers Tony Johanot and Gustave Doré are considered renewals of generic scenes of the first part of the novel Don Quixote, especially in relation to the representation of female characters. However, such considerations are presented as a cut of the great historical and cultural context in which the study of romantic illustrations should be considered. In this way, in the first part of this work we develop a brief historical background, adequate to explain the iconographic incidence as historical and social issues. Moreover, this issue is closely linked to the idea of canon or even literary monument, so common when referring to the most famous works of Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes -for examples. Ultimately, having been properly replaced in the historic place they occupy, the Quixote illustrations are no longer mere circumstantial artifacts and become a kind of second layer of the book, unveiled by the romantic subjectivity, especially with regard to female representation. Therefore, in the second part, we will investigate these illustrations while semiotics systems in relation to the novelistic text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]