[Quixote's Helmet Filled With Curds] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Quixote's Helmet Filled With Curds]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote's helmet lies on the ground, it is filled with curds. The image is occasioned by Quixote asking for Sancho to bring him his helmet while the squire is in the midst of buying some curds. Knowing not what to do with the curds now that they were paid for, he decided to pour them into his master's helmet.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26074
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26074_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Knights and knighthood in art; Sheep; Milking; Armor; Literature; Helmets; Spain