[Don Quixote Spills Curds Over his Head and Mistakes it for an Adventure] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Spills Curds Over his Head and Mistakes it for an Adventure]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Having taken his helmet and clapped it upon his head, the curds left within run down his face and beard. Don Quixote, clad in full armor and equipped with a lance upon his back appears surprised by the curds dripping down from his helmet onto his armor. With his left hand he he grabs a handful of the curds and observes them closely, pointing to his helmet as the origin of the mess. Quixote does not identify the material as curds, but rather mistakes it for his skull softening, his brains melting, or an arduous sweat from head to foot.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26076
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26076_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Imagination; Literature; Knights and knighthood in art; Sheep; Milking; Helmets; Spain; Accident victims; Fiction