[Sancho Panza Came Dashing Into the Room] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sancho Panza Came Dashing Into the Room]
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (far right) speaks with the Duke (facing the reader) and Duchess (seated and facing the doorway) about the squire Sancho Panza. As Quixote praises Sancho Panza for his good intentions and ability to govern Sancho comes dashing into the room, looking around disheveled with a cloth bib around his neck. Behind Sancho follow kitchen boys and other servants, one of whom came with a basin of dirty dishwater. The fellow with the dishwater tries to apply it to Sancho's beard. The Duchess asks what the trouble is, and the servants respond that Sancho refuses to have his beard washed. Sancho is incensed by this accusation, as he is every bit willing to have his beard washed, but also knows that he is being made the butt of the joke by being washed with dirty water.
Image Creator: Philip Simons (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24833
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1747 Wilson
Image: mta_24833_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Master and servant; Fiction; Beard~~Washing; Tricks; Literature