[Don Quixote attacks Alonso López] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote attacks Alonso López]
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote attacks a procession of priests. They are bound for Segovia and are carrying the bones of a gentleman who died and was originally interred in Baeza. After knocking Alonso López and his mule to the ground, Don Quixote interrogates him. Meanwhile, Sancho Panza searches the mule packsaddle. The scene is lit by a fallen torch. In the background, the other priests flee into the fields. Signed by D.-N. Chodowiecki (illustrator) and D. Berger (engraver), dated 1779. Plate 4. Part 1, ch. 19.
Image Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel-Nicolas (Illustrator); Berger, Daniel (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:21500
Language: ger
Source Name: Leben und Thaten des weisen Junkers Don Quixote von la Mancha
Parent Collection: 1780 Fritsch
Image: mta_21500_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Sancho Panza; Alonso López; Rocinante