Sancho While Governor Equips to Attack the Enemy · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sancho While Governor Equips to Attack the Enemy
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Spain; Barataria; Europe
Description: On the seventh night of his governance, Sancho Panza awakes to clamorous noise of bells, trumpets, and drums. Opening his chamber door he found twenty people telling Sancho to bear arms against their enemy for they were being attacked. Although Sancho tried to convince them that he knew nothing about taking up arms they immediately put over his shirt two large shields: one to protect his stomach, and another behind; and then pulling his arms through some holes, they confined him such that he was totally incapable of moving. They then fixed a lance in his hands, and told him to march, as a brave and gallant governor ought to do. Written beneath the image are the lines "fatigued, poor Sancho's senses slumbers charm, but soon he's maked by orders of "arm arm arm". In armour fastened which he cannot use, he fears to fight but does not dare refuse".
Image Creator: Rennoldson (Engraver); Wale Delind. (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25024
Language: eng
Source Name: The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1774 Cooke
Image: mta_25024_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Weapons; History; Literature; Practical jokes