[Don Quixote Falls Sick in His Bed] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Falls Sick in His Bed]
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: Spain; Plains of La Mancha; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (pictured sitting upright in hisbed) is seized with a fever confining him to his bed for six days, during which he is constantly visited by the priest (background), the barber, the batchelor, and other friends. Sancho Panza (right of the priest) never left his master's bedside the whole six days. Every guest tried in their own way to revive Quixote's spirits, until a physician (to the right of Quixote, behind the headboard) was called to diagnose the severity of Don Quixote's illness. The physician felt Quixote's pulse and was saddened to state that he was in dangerously bad health. Don Quixote heard this with composure of mind, but his neice, house-keeper and squire all descended into tears.
Image Creator: T. Chambers (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24852
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1747 Wilson
Image: mta_24852_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Deathbed; Literature; Death; Literature; Fever; Early works to 1800; Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)