[Don Quixote and Sancho Panza See a Roasted Bullock at Quiteria's Wedding] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza See a Roasted Bullock at Quiteria's Wedding]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (left) clad in full armor and Sancho Panza (left) enter the town where Quiteria is to be wed and find a whole bullock spitted upon a large elm, heated by a fire composed of a little mountain of wood. Round the fire are placed three iron cauldrons in which sheep were sunk, cooked, and pulled out by chefs. On the left, hares, fowls, and venison were hung about upon the branches, in order to be placed in the cauldrons. In the foreground on the left there were also piles of bread, and to their right lies four wine skins, each of full of generous wines. The cooks number fifty all dressed in clean and diligent white.
Image Creator: Obscured (Illustrator & Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26168
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26168_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Wine and wine making; Spain; Food habits; Fiction; Cooks; Fiction; Bread; Literature