[Casildea de Vandalia Standing with a Flag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Casildea de Vandalia Standing with a Flag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A woman in a long flowing dress stands atop a round pinnacle, a metal helmet on her head. In her left hand she holds aloft a long cross with a round flag waving by its middle. Both her and the object she is standing on are surrounded by billowing clouds. This image is occasioned during the discussion between the Knight of Mirrors and Don Quixote, when Quixote says "In short, Sir knight, I would have you to know that my destiny, or rather my choice, led me to fall in love with the peerless Casildea de Vandalia; peerless I call her, not so much on account of her stature as the excellency of her state and beauty."
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25945
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25945_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Clothing and dress; Fiction; Flags; Spain; Holy Cross; Legends; Art