[Dapple Stolen by an Actor] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Dapple Stolen by an Actor]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are met by passing of a cart, full of actors in costume, and the carter, who drove the mules, had the appearance of a devil. While they were speaking, one of the motley crew came up capering towards them in the dress of an antic with Morris bells, and three full blown ox bladders tied to theend of a stick. Approaching Don Quixote, he flourished his bladders in the air, and bounced them against the ground close under the nose of Rocinante, who was so startled by the noise, that Don Quixote lost all command over him, and fell violently on his face. Sancho had no sooner dismounted, to assist Don Quixote, than the bladder-dancing devil jumped upon Dapple and set also flying over the field towards the village, where they were going to act.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); J. Fiuler (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25172
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25172_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Accident victims; Fiction; Thieves; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Tricks; Literature