[Don Quixote Watches the Puppet Show] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Watches the Puppet Show]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote, clad in armor, comes where the show is and sets down on a stool before it. Master Peter, the puppeteer, placed himself beside the show, with his right hand on the string that raised the curtains. All the folks in the inn of all ages gather in the background without stools of their own.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26505
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26505_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Puppet theater; History; Storytelling; Fiction; Armor; Literature