[A Hawk Upon a Heron] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Hawk Upon a Heron]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A hawk flies over a heron and looks down into its beak, the heron cranes its neck to look upwards in flight. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "perhaps we are now making a point and soaring aloft to a certain height, to come sowse down upon the kingdom of Candaya, like a hawk upon a heron." (Page 438)
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Sears (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26835
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26835_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Birds; Spain; Hawk; Hunting; Herons; Behavior