Sancho at the Feast · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sancho at the Feast
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Barataria; Spain; Europe
Description: After finishing his work in the justice tribunal, Sancho is led to a sumptuous room where was placed an elegant and splendid table. Sancho sat down at the upper end of the table as there was but one chair and no other napkin or plates. On the far right, a physician dressed in black robes with a long white flowing beard and black spectacles, placed himself next to the table with a whalebone rod in his hand. Delicious food was brought forth to the table and a laced bib was placed under Sancho's chin. Sancho had scarcely had a bite of a fruit plate when the physician touched the dish with the wand, and a page took the plate away. Sancho was going to try another plate but before he could reach or taste it, the wand had touched it and another page whipped that away also with as much speed as they had done the fruit.
Image Creator: H.R. Cooke (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25160
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1809 Lewis
Image: mta_25160_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Food habits; Fiction; Tricks; Literature; Practical jokes; Governors; Spain