Sancho Restoring the Herdsman his Purse · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sancho Restoring the Herdsman his Purse
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Spain; Barataria; Europe
Description: Fulfilling his role as governor of Barataria, Sancho Panza listens to the qualms of the island's inhabitants. The third case brought forth is by a stout young woman holding the arm of an opulent herdsman. She complains to Sancho Panza that the herdsman has forced himself upon her against her will. The herdsman argued that she had consented and swears by this fact. Sancho tells the herdsman to give her his purse, which he does, and then subsequently to go and take it back. When the herdsman tries to take the purse back he fails to do so, and Sancho tells her to give the purse back to the herdsman because if she had defended her chastity as she defended this purse then no man could have forced her. Engraved beneath the image are the words "the woman's strongest, but of force complains, yet for a purse of gold her part maintains, Sancho the fallacy with ease perceives, corrects the woman, and the clown relieves.
Image Creator: Rennoldson (Engraver); Wale Delind. (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25014
Language: eng
Source Name: The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1774 Cooke
Image: mta_25014_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Trials (Rape); Fiction; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Justice, Administration of; Spain