[Zoraida's Father Curses the Captive and his Crew] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Zoraida's Father Curses the Captive and his Crew]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Cava Rumia; Europe; Algeria
Description: In an inn, a Moorish captive tells Quixote's company of his long and troubled past. In this image, the captive and his alleys unbound the Moors whose ship they had stolen, and set them free, one by one, on shore, to their great surprise. The order to unbind the prisoners was give at Zoraida's expense who could not bear to see her father and the rest of the moors bound. The ship came to a creek by the side of a small promontory, which the Moors called the cape of Cava Rumia. Zoraida's father (pictured praying to his God) who was then perfectly in his senses, fell to his knee's and prayed to his god to curse the captive and his daughter. So high he once raised his voice that it reached the ship on the horizon upon which the captive and Zoraida had set sail towards Spain.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25167
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25167_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Betrayal; Fiction; Blessing and cursing; Fiction; Ships; Fiction