[Of How Quixote Oversaw a Fencing Match] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How Quixote Oversaw a Fencing Match]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (left) clad in an iron breastplate, oversees a fencing match between Corchuelo (right) and a licentiate (middle), his right hand behind his back and his left hand stroking his beard pensively. The licentiate, with a graceful motion of body and measured step, holds his left hand behind his back and looks towards Quixote was making Corchuelo look trite. Corchuelo attacked like an enraged lion ; but was met with a smart tap on the hat from the button of the licentiate's foil, making it fall to the ground. Corchuelo's apparel was also torn for the licentiate, by dint of clean thrusts, counted him all the buttons of a little cassock he had on, and tore the skirts, so that they hung in rags. In the background, Sancho and the two countrymen, served as spectators of the match.
Image Creator: Rambert (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26133
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26133_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Fencing; Training; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Weapons; History; Literature; Violence; Fiction; Clothing and dress; Fiction; Armor; Literature; Knights and knighthood in art; Scholars; Fiction