[Of How Sancho Fought for a Saddle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How Sancho Fought for a Saddle]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Sancho Panza (right) punches a bearded man (left) whose left arm is raised to strike Sancho with a beating stick. Both men are pictured fighting for possession of a saddle. Don Quixote, clad in full armor raises both fists, prepared to fight alongside his squire. On the left, the bearded man's companion raises his hands, perturbed by the violence. On the left in the background stands a donkey. In the center of the background a woman in a dressed in a gown and a pointed hat watches the brawl. In the background there is also an inn, out of which a man watches the brawl from the window with his arms crossed.
Image Creator: George Cruickshank (Illustrator); W.O.Knight (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25657
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1837 Jones
Image: mta_25657_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Violence; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Donkeys; Literature; Knights and knighthood in art; Taverns (Inns) in literature