The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Barcelona; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (right), dressed in a straight shamois doublet, and Sancho Panza (left) are led to a barren room by Don Antonio. The room has no other furniture than a small table of jasper, supported by a pillar; and upon it was placed a bust of bronze, the effigy of some high roman person. The knight and squire are accompanied by Don Antonio (pictured on the right sitting in a chair next to Quixote), Don Antonio's wife (pictured sitting on the left), and two ladies who are friends with Don Antonio's wife. Both Quixote and Sancho carefully examine this enchanted bust. le , strongly excited Don Quixote'scuriosity, Don Antonio made him examinecarefully the brazen head , the table, and thejasper pedestal upon which it stood
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25553
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25553_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Deception; Fiction; Tricks; Literature; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Statues; Spain