IN THE ENCHANTED BARK · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: IN THE ENCHANTED BARK
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Spain; Plains of La Mancha; Europe
Description: Having boarded an empty boat up-river, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride this 'enchanted bark' downstream. Eventually they reach a mill, which Quixote confuses for a fortress, and its millers as evil enchanters. Worried that the boat could break their mill, the millers brought out long poles in order to stop the boat and those in it from experiencing an unsavory demise. As the millers stop the boat Don Quixote tries in vain to fend off the millers with his sword, while Sancho Panza tries in vain to hold on to the violently shaking vessel.
Image Creator: George Cruikshank (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24760
Language: eng
Source Name: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1899 Macmillan
Image: mta_24760_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Flour mills; Spain