[A Knight Slays a Dragon] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Knight Slays a Dragon]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: On the right, a knight clad in full armor grasps a lance with both hands, his visor is up revealing revealing his open mouth and wrathful visage. He is piercing the abdomen of a lizard-like dragon about the size of a large horse with large wings and a skulking tail, the dragon's frightening face and bulging eyes directed towards the night in anguish and fury. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote taking the road to Saragossa from the duchess' castle and thinking himself in his proper element, prosecute afresh his scheme of knight errantry.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Lacoste Jeun (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27090
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_27090_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Dragons; Fiction; Weapons; History; Literature