[Don Quixote Attacks the Mourners] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Attacks the Mourners]
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Travelling under cloud of night, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote see 20 people on horseback, all of them dressed in white, each with a lighted flambeau in hand. Seeking to know the reason for these passing apparitions, Quixote stepped before one of the mourners, scaring the travelers mule who reared back and fell over knocking the mourner to the ground alongside it. Seizing the opportunity, Quixote couched his lance and placed his lance in the vicinity of the mourner's face. In the background a litter covered with black is followed by mounted cavaliers in deep mourning.
Image Creator: F. Hayman (Illustrator); G. V. Neist (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25051
Language: eng
Source Name: The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Parent Collection: 1792 Rivington
Image: mta_25051_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Processions; Literature; Weapons; History; Literature; Violence; Fiction; Knights and knighthood in art