[Count Peter Flies Across the Sky Upon a Pegged Wooden Horse] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Count Peter Flies Across the Sky Upon a Pegged Wooden Horse]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A knight dressed in black armor rides a flying wooden horse governed by a peg in its forehead, which serves for a bridle. Behind the knight sits a woman, Magalona, adorned in a white dress with long black hair that blows behind her by the pace of the steed. Below them, the outline of a distant city can be seen. The image is occasioned by the countess Trifaldi saying "This same horse, according to ancient tradition, was the workmanship of the sage Merlin, who lent him to Count Peter, who was his friend, and who took great journeys on the wooden steed's back, and stole, as has been said, the fair Magalona, carrying her behind him through the air, and leaving all who beheld him from the earth staring and astonished." (Page 425).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26794
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26794_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Horses; Spain; Knights and knighthood in art; Armor; Literature; Storytelling; Fiction; Imagination; Literature