[Anselmo's Lamentation] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Anselmo's Lamentation]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: The manuscript that the priest reads from tells the story of Lothario, Camilla, and Anselmo, a tale of adultery between Lothario and Camilla. Learning of his wife's infedility with his closest friend, Lothario, Anselmo mounts his horse and sets out, oppressed with sorrow, to find Lothario, but before he had reached halfway, overwhelmed with the thoughts of his misfortune, he was unable to proceed and tied his horse to a dead tree, at the foot of which, he sunk down upon a rock, and gave vent to the most bitter and mournful lamentations. A cupid flies overhead, symbolic of Anselmo's lovelorn plight. His cap he has tossed to the foreground.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25166
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25166_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Infidelity~~Literature; Literature within Literature