[Quixote's Honourable Man] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Quixote's Honourable Man]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A bald old one-legged man walks forward, his back hunched. He holds a cane in his left hand and a hat in his right, with a jacket draped over his forearm. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "Observe, my son, that a soldier had better smell of gunpowder than of musk ; and if old age overtake you in this noble profession, though lame, maimed, and covered with wounds, at least it will not overtake you without honour, and such honour as poverty itself cannot deprive you of."
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26376
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26376_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Older men; Fiction; Disabled veterans; Fiction; Begging; Fiction