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Title
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[Don Quixote Defeats the Knight of the Mirrors]
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Description
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Don Quixote challenges the Knight of Mirrors to a duel which is to take place at dawn. Once all is set, the Knight of Mirrors charges at Quixote while he is distracted by helping Sancho Panza into a nearby cork tree. Although the Knight of Mirrors stopped upon seeing that Quixote was preoccupied, Don Quixote, who saw not these perplexities, assailed him with perfect security, and with such force that he soon brought the Knight of Mirrors to the ground, leaving him motionless and without any signs of life. Upon seeing his master's victory slid down from the cork-tree, and ran to his master, who dismounted from Rocinante, and went up to the vanquished knight. When, unlacing his helmet to see whether he was dead beheld the bachelor Samson Carrasco. Lying upon the ground before Quixote is the Knight of Mirros, a strong-made man, not very tall, who wore over his armor a loose coat of the finest gold cloth, besprinkled with little moons of polished glass. A large plume of feathers, green, yellow, and white, waved above his helmet which had fallen onto the ground beside him. In the background, the squire of the wood rushes to the retake the side of his master.
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Image Creator
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C. L. Laino (Illustrator & Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:25129
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Source Name
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Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha
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Image
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Subject
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Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates
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Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)
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Dueling
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Early works to 1800
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Knights and knighthood in art
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Weapons
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History
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Literature
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