[Of How the Jailed 'Madman' Told the Licentiate to Save Himself the Trouble and Stay in Prison] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How the Jailed 'Madman' Told the Licentiate to Save Himself the Trouble and Stay in Prison]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe; Seville
Description: Meeting with Don Quixote to try and persuade him away from knight-errantry, the barber tells a story of what once happened in Seville. In an asylum for the 'insane', a 'madman' (left) sits, his head resting on his hands behind the iron bars of a cell. The licentiate (middle) points towards the madman angrily, having been told that he is not so sane as he says and that he may well not leave at all to save himself the trouble of returning. The chaplain (right) dressed in black robes and a long hat listens to the licentiate rebuke the madman.
Image Creator: J. Caque (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25964
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_25964_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Prison chaplains; Christianity; Prisoners; Fiction; Mental illness; Treatment; Mental illness; Literature