[An Apothecary of Toledo] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [An Apothecary of Toledo]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: An older man dressed in leather hood and black robes with small spectacles over his eyes sits at a table with a pestle in his right hand. On the table in front of him sits a copper basin used in the manner of a mortar. On the left there stands a small tincture filled with liquid and a tall rounded flask. The image is occasioned by Sancho Panza saying "this madam duenna should lay any stumbling-block in the way of my promised government ; for I have heard an apothecary of Toledo, who talked like a goldfinch, say that, where duennas have to do, no good thing can e'er ensue."
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26763
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26763_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Medicine; History; Literature; Naturopathy; Popular works