[Episode of the enchanted head] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Episode of the enchanted head]
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Don Antonio Moreno leads Don Quixote to a side room, where there is a table of jasper on a base of the same material. On it is a bronze bust made in the fashion of Roman emperors. While his friends and Sancho Panza gather in the room, Don Antonio tells Don Quixote that the enchanted head has the property and virtue of responding to any question spoken in its ear. Sancho Panza asks the enchanted head a question, but is disappointed with its response. Signed by F. Hayman (illustrator) and C. Grignion I (engraver). Part 2, ch. 62.
Image Creator: Hayman, Francis (Illustrator); Grignion, Charles, I (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:20505
Language: eng
Source Name: The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Parent Collection: 1755 Millar
Image: mta_20505_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Sancho Panza; Don Antonio Moreno; Busts