[The Lavish Entrance to Quiteria's Village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Lavish Entrance to Quiteria's Village]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Having arrived at Quiteria's wedding, Quixote's company see an arch made from the boughs of an arbour, beneath which stand many musicians with various instruments, as drums, tambourines, psalteries, cymbals, little drums and bells. The musicians go up and down in bands through the street, some dancing, others singing, and others playing upon the different instruments aforesaid. Several others were busied about raising scaffolds, from which they might commodiously be spectators, next day, of the plays and dances that were to be performed in that place.
Image Creator: Lacoste Jeun (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26134
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26134_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Music; Spain; 16th century; Parades; Spain; Wedding etiquette; Spain