Don Quixote breaking the Nets · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Quixote breaking the Nets
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote finds himself caught in nets of green string that are stretched between trees. Imagining that enchanters want to entangle him, he tries to break the nests when two shepherdesses appear before him and Sancho Panza. They are dressed in jackets and skirts made of fine brocade and rich moiré shot with gold. Signed by S. Shelley (illustrator) and J. Fittler (engraver). Part 2, ch. 58.
Image Creator: Shelley, Samuel (Illustrator); Fittler, James (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:22268
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
Parent Collection: 1833 Wilson
Image: mta_22268_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Sancho Panza; Shepherdesses; Nets