[Don Clavijo Enters the Chamber of Antonomasia] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Clavijo Enters the Chamber of Antonomasia]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A young moustached man enters dressed in the clothing of a cavalier and a cap with a tall feather with a dagger by his waist. He is followed closely behind by another woman who tries to intervene and keep him from entering the chamber. On the left, a young woman, dressed in a nightgown rises from laying faced down on her bedding to look upon the intruding character. The image is occasioned by the countess Trifaldi saying "My imprudence, my great ignorance, and my little caution, melted me down, opened the way and smoothed the passage for Don Clavijo, for that is the name of the aforesaid cavalier. Through my intervention, he entered, not once, but often, in the chamber of the (not by him but by me) betrayed Antonomasia, under the title of her lawful husband ; for, though a sinner, I would never have consented, without his being her husband, that he should have come within the shadow of her shoe-string."
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Porret (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26787
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26787_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Storytelling; Fiction; Clothing and dress; Fiction