[Don Diego de Miranda Gives to the Poor] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Diego de Miranda Gives to the Poor]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Diego de Miranda (middle) dressed in a long buttoned coat, hands a coin to the outstretched hand of a dark-haired man with a staff in hand. Don Diego's wife stands next to him and leans on his shoulder. An old man with a full beard (right) holds open a pouch, hoping for it to be filled by the graces of Diego. Kneeling before Diego and his wife, a woman prays, and to her right a child stands absently. The image is occasioned by Don Diego saying "I hear mass every day; I share my substance with the poor, making no parade with my good works, nor harboring in my breast hypocrisy and vain glory, those enemies which so slyly get possession of the best guarded hearts."
Image Creator: Obscured (Illustrator & Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26055
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26055_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Poor; Fiction; Begging; Fiction; Clothing and dress; Fiction; Older men; Fiction; Gold coins; Spain