[The Duchess' Page Meets Some Women On the Outskirts of La Mancha] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Duchess' Page Meets Some Women On the Outskirts of La Mancha]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Having dismounted his horse, a page approaches some women washing in a brook. He is a young man who lowers his hat in his right hand to introduce himself to them while in his left hand he holds a horse whip. The four women washing clothes in the brook look up at the figure from their knees, their sleeves rolled up to their elbows.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27033
Language: eng
Source Name: This is the second of two volumes of Miguel De Cervantes' classic 'The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha' translated by Charles Jarvis from the original Spanish for the 1842 Henry G. Bohn publication. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the knight-errant Don Quixote, who is so enamored by the fictional knight errantry of chivalrous novels that he thinks himself a knight of this ilk.
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_27033_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Pages~~Literature; Rivers; Spain; Horses; Spain