Sancho Tantalized at his own Table · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sancho Tantalized at his own Table
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: Barataria; Spain; Europe
Description: After answering questions in the court of justice, Sancho Panza is led to a palace, where, in a spacious room, music is played for him and four pages wait to help him wash his hands. Sancho is placed at the head of a table with a white cloth laid out for one. Then a physician with a very long white beard and black robe came and stood to the right of the table with a whalebone wand in his hand. Sancho's attendants brought dishes forth, and Sancho discovered fruit, meat and other delicious dishes. A student (pictured behind Quixote), said grace ; a page (pictured to the left of the student) put a bib under Sancho's chin ; and another set a dish of fruit before him. But Sancho had hardly putone bit into his mouth, before the physician touched the dish with his wand, and then it was taken away by a page in an instant much to the distress of Sancho Panza.
Image Creator: Mr. Ozell (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25010
Language: eng
Source Name: The History of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
Parent Collection: 1749 Innys
Image: mta_25010_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Food habits; Fiction; Physicians; Spain; Literature; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)