[Of How Sancho and Quixote Fell From Their Horses in the Presence of the Duchess] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How Sancho and Quixote Fell From Their Horses in the Presence of the Duchess]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (middle), clad in armor, makes a show of alighting and throsw his body off Rocinante with a swing, carrying with him Rocinante's saddle, which was ill girthed, causing both him and the saddle to come falling to the ground. On the left, Sancho dismounts from Dapple, but his foot gets stuck one of the rope stirrups, and he hangs by it, with his face and arms on the ground. On the right, the duchess and her men are seen watching in the background.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Petite (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26612
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26612_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Accident victims; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Horses; Spain; Donkeys; Literature