[Of how Don Quixote and Sancho Panzo Rode the Wooden Horse Clavileño ] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of how Don Quixote and Sancho Panzo Rode the Wooden Horse Clavileño ]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (right) and Sancho Panza (left) are seated blindfolded on the wooden horse Clavileño in the yard of the Duke and Duchess. Quixote clad in armor holds his sword in his right hand and his shield aloft in his left. Sancho clings tightly to his master from behind; several onlookers cheer in the foreground. On the right, a man holds a flaming sconce near Quixote's head. Many men behind the horse hold lit torches above their head. on the left a man uses a bellow on Sancho and Quixote to simulate the feeling of flying through the air.
Image Creator: George Cruickshank (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25722
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1837 Jones
Image: mta_25722_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Horses; Spain; Tricks; Literature; Imagination; Literature; Weapons; History; Literature; Knights and knighthood in art; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)