[Toads, Snakes, and Lizards] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Toads, Snakes, and Lizards]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A snake (left) coils itself apprehensively, its tongue sticking out and hissing. In the background, another snakes tail is pictured. In the middle, a black toad stands menacingly, eyes plastered to the reader. Another toad is pictured on the background on the right in front of an angry looking lizard behind it. The image is occasioned by Don Quixote saying "thereis a romance which tells us that king Rodrigo was shut up alive in a tomb full of toads, snakes, and lizards, and that, two days after, the king said, from within the tomb".
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Sears (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26733
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26733_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Toads; Literature; Snakes; Behavior; Lizards; Literature