[The Lacquey Pierced By a Cherub's Point] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Lacquey Pierced By a Cherub's Point]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A man dressed in full armor and mounted atop a white horse sits equipped with a lance and shield. He looks off to the right and clutches his chest with his left hand which holds the reins of his horse. On the left, a cherub with white angelic wings pierces the knight with a long arrow two yards across, penetrating the armor without touching it.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Verdeil (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27082
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_27082_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Love in literature; Horses; Spain; Love; Fiction; Wings (Anatomy); Structural dynamics