[A Lap Dog and her Whelp] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Lap Dog and her Whelp]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain
Description: A female lap dog lies on the ground, three of her whelps lying by her stomach and drinking her milk. A plate lies in the foreground. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "I know a certain lady who asked one of these figure-raisers whether a little lap-dog she had would breed, and how many, and of what colour the puppies would be. To which master astrologer, after raising a figure answered that the bitch would pup, and have three whelps, one green, one carnation, and the other mottled, provided that she proved with young between the hours of eleven or twelve at noon or night, and that it were on a Monday or a Saturday."
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26504
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26504_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Dogs; Fiction; Lactation; Nutritional aspects