[The Man Who Claimed to be Merlin] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Man Who Claimed to be Merlin]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Pictured on the right on an elevated throne upon a drawn cart sits a young woman clad in a veil of silver tissues. To her right stands a figure arrayed in a gown of state, which reaches his feet, his face is that of a skeleton's, without flesh and skin. This living Death lifts his right hand which holds an ivory rod that he takes for a wand, and speaks with heavy words to Don Quixote (not pictured).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Andrew G. L. (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26754
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26754_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Death; Literature; Deception; Fiction; Disguise; Fiction; Carriages and carts; History