[The Peerless Casildea de Vandalia Fans Herself] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Peerless Casildea de Vandalia Fans Herself]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A young woman in a braided headdress and white dress lifts her skirt to avoid getting caught in the thorns. In her left hand she holds a fan of peacock feathers close to her face. She is surrounded by many flowers, though roses are most numerous amongst them. The Knight of the Mirrors tell Quixote that this woman is Casildea de Vandalia who has employed him as Hercules was by his step-mother, and that he had needed to succeed in many perils, and was promised, at the end of each of them, that the next should crown his hopes of loving her.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25946
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25946_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Clothing and dress; Fiction; Flowers; Spain; Fans (Machinery); Fiction