[The Knight of the Mirrors Falls from his Mount] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Knight of the Mirrors Falls from his Mount]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Having stopped to let Quixote help his squire up a cork tree, the Knight of the Mirrors falls headfirst off of his horse onto the ground below next to his lance after Quixote (left) knocks him off with his lance. Don Quixote, clad in full armor and mounted atop Rocinante charges forth with his shield in his right hand and his lance couched on his left. In the background Sancho Panza can be seen looking over the duel from atop a cork tree.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25968
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25968_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Dueling; Early works to 1800; Violence; Fiction; Accident victims; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Knights and knighthood in art; Weapons; History; Literature