[Devils Carry the Blindfolded Licentiate Torralva on a Broom] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Devils Carry the Blindfolded Licentiate Torralva on a Broom]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe; Madrid
Description: A man rides a broomstick which is carried by a devil on each end. In the background in the distance lies the city of Madrid. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "remember the true story of the licentiate Torralva, whom devils carried through the air, riding on a cane, with his eyes shut. In twelve hours he arrived at Rome, and alighted atthe tower of Nona, which is a street of that city, and saw all the tumult, assault and death of the constable of Bourbon ; and the next morning he returned to Madrid, where he gave an account of all he had seen." (Page 437)
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Sears (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26798
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26798_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Devil; Fiction; Storytelling; Fiction