[Don Quixote Encounters a Procession of Disciplants] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Encounters a Procession of Disciplants]
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote spots a group of people dressed in white in the manner of disciplants. Due to the lack of rain, crops were bare and throughout all of the villages they made procession and public prayers asking for god to bring rain down upon the villages. Perceiving this procession, Don Quixote imagined that they were enchanters who could only be foiled by a knight errant such as himself. His fantasy was only reinforced by the presence of a woman covered in black held aloft by the procession, who Don Quixote assumed was a notable woman being carried away by the "miscreants" and "ruffians". Seeking to save the woman Quixote spurred Rocinante (his horse) towards the procession and accused the nearest disciplant of kidnapping a "noble lady". Sancho Panza (bottom left) runs after his master and futilely cries for Quixote to leave the procession be.
Image Creator: Philip Simons (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24836
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1747 Wilson
Image: mta_24836_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Processions, Religious; Baptists, [Catholic Church, etc.]; Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Knights and knighthood in art