[Don Quixote Praises a Peasant Girl as Dulcinea Del Toboso] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Praises a Peasant Girl as Dulcinea Del Toboso]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe; Toboso
Description: Sancho Panza (right) tells Don Quixote (middle) that Dulcinea is approaching with two maids on horseback and grabs a peasant girl riding on the back of a donkey in hopes that Quixote will be fooled. Don Quixote, clad in armor, believes that she is Dulcinea and falls to his knees, convinced that an evil enchanter has changed her into a peasant. In the background two of the peasant girl's companions follow on donkeys of their own, the closest one raising a stick to hit Sancho and Quixote.
Image Creator: George Cruickshank (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25667
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1837 Jones
Image: mta_25667_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Knights and knighthood in art; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Imagination; Literature; Deception; Fiction; Peasants; Fiction; Spain