[Don Quixote Reads from a Pocketbook Found on the Side of the Road] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Don Quixote Reads from a Pocketbook Found on the Side of the Road]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Quixote (right), removes a page from a pocketbook and reads it while mounted atop Rocinante who is grazing on a nearby bush. To read the paper, Quixote couches his lance against his shoulder and slings his shield over his back. Beneath Quixote, Sancho Panza empties a portmanteau of its linen. To the left of Sancho stands Dapple, his donkey. In the goreground on the right rests a saddle.
Image Creator: Unknown (Illustrator & Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25628
Language: eng
Source Name: The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1825 Duyckinck
Image: mta_25628_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Books and reading; Spain; Thieves; Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Horses; Spain; Donkeys; Literature