[Don Quixote Attacks the Wine Skins in his Sleep] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Attacks the Wine Skins in his Sleep]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: In Juan Palomeque’s inn, Don Quixote dressed in nothing more than an oversized shirt and a nightcap swings his sword wildly and defends himself with a bundle of blankets that he uses as a shield. Being seized by a dream, Quixote thinks himself to be fighting terrible giants, but he is in fact only destroying the landlord's wineskins. The innkeeper (middle) grasps Quixote by his shirt with both hands, incensed at the knight-errant. The priest, pictured in black with a novel hat behind the innkeeper grabs Quixote's arm, but appears almost bemused. A woman with a candle in her right hand enters the room, followed by Sancho, Cardenio, the barber, and other guests of the inn. On the bottom left a flayed wineskin sprays wine into the air.
Image Creator: George Cruickshank (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25720
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1837 Jones
Image: mta_25720_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Wine and wine making; Spain; Sleep disorders; Popular works; Sleep; Literary collections; Imagination; Literature; Knights and knighthood in art; Taverns (Inns) in literature; Violence; Fiction; Weapons; History; Literature