[The Sage Lirgandeo Pulled by Oxen] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Sage Lirgandeo Pulled by Oxen]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A waggons arrives in the forest, drawn by four oxen, all covered with black palls, and a large lighted torch of wax fastened to each horn. The drivers were two ugly devils,similarly habited in buckram, located on both sides of the oxen, each of whom grab the lighted torch from the oxen's horn. At the top of the waggon is fixed a seat, on which a venerable old man sits, with a white beard so long that it reaches below his girdle. He wears a long gown of black buckram. This is the sage Lirgandeo.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26751
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26751_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Devil; Fiction; Carriages and carts; History; Oxen; Literature; Torches; Religious aspects; Catholic Church