Dall'origlier l'Eroe rapido balza / E i gatti furibondi urta, ed incalza. / Uno frà quelli nella sua figura / Salta, lo morde in faccia, e lo sfigura. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Dall'origlier l'Eroe rapido balza / E i gatti furibondi urta, ed incalza. / Uno frà quelli nella sua figura / Salta, lo morde in faccia, e lo sfigura.
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: From a gallery above Don Quixote’s window, a cord with more than a hundred cowbells attached is lowered, followed by a sack full of cats, with smaller bells attached to their tails. Some of the cats make their way into Don Quixote’s room via the window and are mistaken by the knight for enchanters or wizards. He attacks them and manages to scare most of them off, but one cat is so hounded by Don Quixote’s sword thrusts that he claws at the knight’s face. Signed by Bartolomeo Pinelli (engraver and illustrator) and dated Rome, 1833. Plate 59. Part 2, ch. 46.
Image Creator: Pinelli, Bartolomeo (Illustrator); Pinelli, Bartolomeo (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:20675
Language: ita
Source Name: Le azioni piu celebrate del famoso cavaliere errante Don Chisciotte della Mancia inventate ed incise da Bartilomeo Pinelli Romano
Parent Collection: 1834 Gentilucci
Image: mta_20675_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Sancho Panza