[Noblemen Reading the History of Don Quixote] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Noblemen Reading the History of Don Quixote]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Two noblemen stand around a third and read over his shoulder from a large book. The nobleman in the middle sits on a stately chair and crosses his legs, holding open a large book in both hands across his lap. On the a second nobleman with long curly hair leans against the chair and looks over the first nobleman's shoulder at the contents of the book, his left hand against his waist with plumed hat in hand. On the left a third nobleman with a plumed hat in his right hand looks over the first nobleman's shoulder to see the contents of the book himself. The image is occasioned by the bachelor Sampson Carrasco saying "But none are so much addicted to reading it as your pages; there is not a nobleman's ante-chamber in which you will not find a Don Quixote. When one lays it down, another takes it up; one asks for it, another snatches it."
Image Creator: Puix (Illustrator); Feret (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26755
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26755_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Monarchy; Spain; Books and reading; Spain; Clothing and dress; Fiction