[The Blind Lead the Blind] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Blind Lead the Blind]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A bald blind old man (left) with a long thick beard that falls past his shoulders reaches out to his blind companion (right) with his left hand to grab him by the shoulder so that he will not fall into the gaping hole before them. Both men carry a walking stick in their right hands, and the man on the right holds a hat in his left hand. For clothing the old man has a loose robe whilst the young man wears well-fitted apparel and pants that do not differentiate with the leg. The image is occasioned by the Squire of the Woods saying "if the blind lead the blind, both are in danger of falling into the pit" in referring to the relationship between Quixote and Sancho.
Image Creator: Sears (Engraver); Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25941
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25941_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Blind; Fiction; Older men; Fiction; Clothing and dress; Fiction; Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.); Fiction