[Don Quixote Destroys master Peter's Castelet] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Destroys master Peter's Castelet]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: When Don Quixote, clad in armor, saw this cohort of master Peter's Moorish puppets, he he rose from his seat, unsheathed his sword, and, began to rain hacks and slashes upon the puppets, showering down strokes like hail and demolishing the castelet. The whole audience appears to be in consternation, and even Sancho (right) steps backwards having never seen his master so outraged. Master Peter lies on the ground next to his castelet reaching out to Quixote and begging him to cease in his destruction, while a young boy on the left peels back a curtain and watches Quixote destroy the puppets in horror.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Andrew Best Leloir (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26514
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26514_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Imagination; Literature; Weapons; History; Literature; Mental illness; Literature; Taverns (Inns) in literature; Puppet theater; History; Storytelling; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Knights and knighthood in art