[The Burial of Donna Magoncia] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Burial of Donna Magoncia]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A casket is covered by black cloth adorned with a cross and on top of the cross there is a lone crown. In the foreground on the tiled floor sits a single goblet and in the background four lit candles upon tall candlesticks. The image is occasioned by Dolorida saying "In short, after many pros and cons, the Infanta standing stiffly to her engagement, without varying or departing from the declaration first made by her, the vicar pronounced sentence in favour of Don Clavijo, and gave her to him to wife; at which the queen, Donna Magoncia, mother to the Infanta Antonomasia, was so much disturbed, that we buried her in three days' time."
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26789
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26789_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Storytelling; Fiction; Candles; Equipment and supplies; Death; Literature