[The Holy Brotherhood Mistakes Don Quixote for Dead] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Holy Brotherhood Mistakes Don Quixote for Dead]
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza chance to lodge at the same an inn as a trooper of the Holy Brotherhood. Having angered a Carrier by trying to sleep with a female servant against her will, a skirmish ensues between the three of them, destroying Quixote's bed and extinguishing the lights in the process. Badly beaten during the scuffle, Quixote lies forlorn on the ground, as a trooper of the Holy Brotherhood enters the room with a candle in his left hand and a beating stick in his right. Seeing a member of the holy brotherhood, the female servant (pictured grabbing Quixote by the beard) and the carrier (pictured grabbing the servant girl by the hair) flee the scene. Upon seeing Quixote's forlorn visage strewed across the ground the trooper mistakes the knight-errant for dead. Meanwhile, Sancho Panza sleeps peacefully in the background.
Image Creator: F. Hayman (Illustrator); G. V. Neist (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25045
Language: eng
Source Name: The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Parent Collection: 1792 Rivington
Image: mta_25045_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Taverns (Inns) in literature; Beard~~Literature; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Brotherhoods; Spain