[A Knight Braves the Tempestuous Seas] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Knight Braves the Tempestuous Seas]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Amid a tempestuous sea, a knight with a crown stands and looks out into the distance, a cross or sword in his right hand and a broad shield in his left hand. The knight stands on a tiny row boat fit for two the ocean waves rocking furiously. The image is occasioned by Quixote saying "There is no knight now who, issuing out of the forest, ascends the mountain, who thence penetrates to a barren and desert shore of the sea, most commonly stormy and tempestuous, where finding on the beach a small skiff without oar, sail, mast, or any kind of tackle, he boldly throws himself into it, exposing himself to the implacable billows of the profound sea, which now mount him up to the skies, and then cast him down to the abyss."
Image Creator: Obscured (Illustrator & Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26096
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26096_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Boats and boating; Fiction; Weapons; History; Literature; Courage; Literature; Ocean waves; Atlantic Ocean