[An Archbishop's Mitre and an Emperor's Crown] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [An Archbishop's Mitre and an Emperor's Crown]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A mitre (right) and a crown (left) with a cross at its peak rest upon the ground before a lavishly engraved staff. The image is occasioned by Sancho Panza (not pictured) mentioning to the Squire of the Woods that his master "is a mere layman, though I remember some discreet persons (but in my opinion with no very good design) advised him to endeavour to be an archbishop. He wisely rejected their counsel. and would be nothing but an emperor, and I trembled all the while, lest he should take it into his head to be of the church, because I am not qualified to hold ecclesiastical preferments." The image illustrates the possible objects of Quixote's desire.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25919
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25919_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Emperors; Fiction; Clothing and dress; Fiction; Bishops; Apparel; Spain