[Sancho Panza Pares His Nails] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sancho Panza Pares His Nails]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Sancho Panza, wearing a wide hat, sits at a table at where he places his elbows. In his right hand he holds a pair of scissors which he plans on using to cut off the top of his fingernail so that it does not grow too long. This image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "Sancho, in the first place I enjoin you to be cleanly, and to pare your nails, instead of letting them grow, as some do, whose ignorance makes them believe that long nails beautify the hands ; as if that excrescence which they preserve so carefully were a nail, whereas it is rather the talon of a lizard-hunting kestrel: a monstrous and revolting abuse!" (Page 453).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Obscured (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26885
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26885_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Nails (Anatomy); Care and hygiene