[A Sackful of Proverbs and Sly Remarks] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Sackful of Proverbs and Sly Remarks]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A leather sack lies open on the ground, slips of paper flying out from within with the word 'proverb' written on each slip. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "This I might prevent, by letting the duke know what you are, telling him that all that paunch-gut and little carcase of thine is nothing but a sackful of proverbs and sly remarks" (Page 458).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26886
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26886_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Paper; Literature; Metaphor; Fiction