[Teresa Panza Gives a Basket of Eggs to a Friar in Exchange for Writing a Letter] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Teresa Panza Gives a Basket of Eggs to a Friar in Exchange for Writing a Letter]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A woman with long hair (right), dressed in a bodice and frock with a cap upon her head leans over a table and looks down upon a letter, her right hand motioning for something specific to be written. On the left, a man is seated in the habit of a friar with his hair ordered in a circle round his head, in his right hand he holds a quill which he uses to write upon a piece of paper. On the bottom right in the foreground beside a table leg lies a basket filled with bread and eggs.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27037
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_27037_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Panza, Teresa (Fictional Character); Friars; Books and reading; Europe; Letters; Fiction; Food habits; Fiction