[Of How Sancho Asked for Food at Camacho's Wedding] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How Sancho Asked for Food at Camacho's Wedding]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive at the wedding between Camacho and Quiteria. The first thing that presented itself to Sancho's sight, was a large group of 50 chefs and their cooking accoutrements. Sancho beheld this sight with wonder and delight, being first captivated by the many pots of meat, and being unable to abstain any loger, ventured toward one of the busy cooks. In persuasive and hungry terms, Sancho begged for a luncheon of bread in one of the pots. So saying, the cook laid hold of a kettle, he fished outthree pullets, and a couple of geese, and gave the pot to Sancho to partake in. Sancho dismounts from his donkey, dapple, and happily takes the pot. Don Quixote, clad in armor and mounted upon Rocinante, watches his squire satiate his hunger in disappointment. Two more cooks are pictured in the background talking to each other.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25506
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25506_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Cooks; Fiction; Food habits; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates