[A Man Speaks to Onlookers having Flung Around a Dog] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Man Speaks to Onlookers having Flung Around a Dog]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Seville; Spain; Europe
Description: In the city of Seville, a man with a hollow cane, pointed at one end, let's go of a dog, having applied the pointed end of the cane to the dog's posteriors, tried to blow it up as round as a ball. Having slapped the inflated body of the dog, he let him go, saying to the numerous surprised bystanders: “ Well, gentlemen, I suppose you thinkit an easy matter to blow up a dog?” Two children on the right follow the bloated dog, one boy with his hands in the air, and a young girl reaching towards the dog. Meanwhile, the onlookers on the left consist of a bearded man with a feathered cap, a woman asking the man with the hollow cane why he would commit such an act, and a child by her side.
Image Creator: Robert Smirke (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25485
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1818 Strand
Image: mta_25485_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Mental illness; Treatment; Dogs; Fiction