Don Quixote Descending into the Cave of Montesinos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Quixote Descending into the Cave of Montesinos
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: In the afternoon, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the Scholar who served as their guide arrived at the the mouth of the cave, which they found to be wide and spacious, but so much overgrown with briars, thorns , and wild fig trees, as to be almost concealed . The scholar and Sancho proceeded to bind a cord around Don Quixote. The knight was well bound over his doublet. Thinking Quixote safely secured, the scholar (pictured looking down at Quixote and holding the rope) and Sancho (pictured closest to Quixote and shifting his weight backwards) let him down into the cavern; and, as he entered, Sancho gave him his blessing. Don Quixote looks down at the darkness below him having only brought with him his helmet and his sword.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); F. Engleheart (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25511
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25511_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Knights and knighthood in art; Caves; Spain; Scholars; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)