[Of the Imaginary Knight who Jumps Headlong into the Boiling Pool] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of the Imaginary Knight who Jumps Headlong into the Boiling Pool]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: In talking to the curate while imprisoned in a cage under the pretense of enchantment, Quixote espouses the benefits of chivalrous books. In Quixote's impassioned diatribe he speaks at length about the admirable knight who finds delight in placing their eyes upon a vast lake of boiling black water, with a prodigious number of serpents, snakes, crocodiles, and divers other kinds of fierce and dreadful creatures, floating in it; and scarcely hearing the rewards for braving the lake, without further consideration, or reflection upon the danger, plunges headlong into the boiling pool without even taking off his cumbersome armor.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); J. Fiuler (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25170
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25170_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Imagination; Literature