[A Greedy Boy Eats Half a Dozen Pears] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Greedy Boy Eats Half a Dozen Pears]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: A young boy sits against a wall with one shoe on his left foot and eats a pear with his right hand. On the ground by his side lie five more pears. The imae is occasioned by Sancho Panza saying "That is what I renounce, Signor Sampson, my master makes no more of attacking an hundred armed men, than a greedy boy would do half a dozen pears" (Page 48).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26943
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26943_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Fruit; Literature