Don Quixote in the Enchanted Cage · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Quixote in the Enchanted Cage
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote sits in a wooden cage, pulled by two horses, with his hands tied , and his legs stretched out, leaning against the bars, listening to his squire Sancho Panza. The priest, and the barber, and the bachelor have struck up conversation further along the winding path with a canon who was curious as to why Quixote was tied up and imprisoned. Quixote believes he is enchanted and must return to the plains of La Mancha to rid himself of enchantments. During the foregoing conversation between the canon and the Priest, Sancho, perceiving that he might speak to his master without the presence of the priest and the barber, whom he looked upon with suspicion , came upto his master's cage and told him that those who are riding along with them, with their faces covered, are the priest and the barber of their town.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); J. Fiuler (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25169
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25169_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Prisons; Fiction; Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Deception; Fiction