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Title: [A Bag of Coins]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A pouch overflowing with coins sits on the floor, hanging open to the left. The image is occasioned by the Squire of the Wood's saying "'with the hopes weentertain of reward; for if the knight-errant whom the squire serves be not over and above unlucky, he must in a short time find himself recompensed, at least, with a handsome government of some island or some petty earldom." The pouch of coins pictured in this illustration is symbolic of this desire.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25918
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25918_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Gold coins; Spain; Wealth; Fiction