[Of How the Innkeeper Gave Wine to Quixote Through a Reed] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How the Innkeeper Gave Wine to Quixote Through a Reed]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe; Plains of La Mancha
Description: Clad in his iron helmet, Don Quixote eats at an inn that he has mistaken for a castle. He sits at a table outside the entrance of the inn with a cloth laid out overtop. Having brought out a dish of bacallao and a loaf of bread the innkeeper brought out a reed and putting one end to the knight's mouth poured in the wine from the other. On the opposite end of the table, two ladies were called to feed Don Quixote his food, as the Knight's hands were used for keeping his helmet on his head, and he refused to take it off.
Image Creator: Richard Westall (Illustrator); Chal Heath (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25564
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1820 Hurst and Robinson
Image: mta_25564_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Food habits; Fiction; Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Knights and knighthood in art; Taverns (Inns) in literature; Wine and wine making; Spain