[The Skeleton of Sancho and Dapple] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Skeleton of Sancho and Dapple]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Two skeletons lie prostrate upon the ground in the darkness. The skeleton in the foreground is human and lying on its front, wearing nothing but a pair of shoes. In the background lies a donkey's skeleton with its ears still attached. On the right sits a pile of folded clothes and a drinking vessel. The image is occasioned by Sancho Panza saying "Hence shall my bones be taken up, when it shall please God that I am found, clean, white, and bare, and with them those of my trusty Dapple, whence perhaps it will be conjectured who we were, at least by those who have been informed that Sancho Panza never parted from his ass, nor his ass from Sancho Panza" (Page 580).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27070
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_27070_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Human skeleton; Literature; Caves; Spain; Clothing and dress; Fiction; Donkeys; Literature