[A Cupid Fires a Bow at Quiteria's Wedding] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Cupid Fires a Bow at Quiteria's Wedding]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Finishing his dance at Quiteria's wedding, the man dressed as cupid (middle right) bent his bow at the battlements of the castle. He let fly an arrow at the top of the castle making the dancing damsels (bottom right) and the other guests flee. Don Quixote (left), clad in full armor with a lance in his hand stands on a hill and watches on stoically.
Image Creator: Brewers (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26244
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26244_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Weapons; History; Literature; Armor; Literature; Dance; Spain; Wedding etiquette; Spain