Le muletier avait pris gout au jeu · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Le muletier avait pris gout au jeu
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: On the road, Don Quixote encounters a group of merchants from Toledo on their way to Murcia to buy silk. Cervantes writes that there are six of them, holding parasols, four servants on horseback, and three grooms on foot leading mules. Don Quixote orders them to halt and to confess that there is no woman more beautiful than Dulcinea of Toboso. When they refuse, the knight charges them but falls from his mount. One of the grooms breaks Don Quixote’s lance and Signed by G. Doré (illustrator) and H.-J. Pisan (engraver). Part 1, ch. 4.
Image Creator: Doré, Gustave (Illustrator); Pisan, Héliodore-Joseph (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:22136
Language: fre
Source Name: L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche
Parent Collection: 1863 Hachette Dore
Image: mta_22136_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Merchants; Rocinante; Parasols