[Of How Don Quixote's Beard Was Lathered By Four Damsels] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Of How Don Quixote's Beard Was Lathered By Four Damsels]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Four damsels stand around Don Quixote, one to the left with a basin of silver, a second behind him with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows and a necklace adorned on her neck went at Quixote with two hands on his beard, a third still, stood on the right with fine clean towels in her arms, and the fourth damsel merely peaked over the second's shoulder. The damsel behind Don Quixote claps her hands under Quixote's beard with a genteel air and assurance, raising great flakes of white lather over the the face beneath the nose. As Quixote gets washed, he shuts his eyes tight so as not to have them infiltrated by the soapy suds.
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Breviere (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26630
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26630_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Bath (Spain); Fiction; Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Beard~~Literature; Indentured servants; Fiction