[The Duennas of Countess Trifaldi Lift Their Veils to Reveal their Beards] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Duennas of Countess Trifaldi Lift Their Veils to Reveal their Beards]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Eight sorrowful people are pictured with veils lifted up over their head. Their faces are all planted with beards, some red, some black, some white, and some piebald. The image is occasioned by countess Trifaldi telling her duenna's to lift their veils and revealing their beards.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Andrew Best Leloir (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26791
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26791_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Beard~~Literature; Deception; Fiction; Tricks; Literature