[Don Quixote Mistakes Sheep for an Evil Army] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Mistakes Sheep for an Evil Army]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Mounted atop Rocinante (left) Don Quixote, clad in armour (except for a helmet) with a couched lance and steadied shield charges through flocks of sheep, flaying them under the illusion that they comprise the army of an evil enchanter. In the foreground Sancho Panza falls to his knees with his hands by his side crying out for his master to cease in his killing. Behind Sancho, his donkey, Dapple, stands by his side.
Image Creator: R. Westall (Illustrator); Chal Heath (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25571
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1820 Hurst and Robinson
Image: mta_25571_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Sheep; Literature; Violence; Fiction; Weapons; History; Literature; Imagination; Literature; Mental illness; Literature