DON QUIXOTE DOING PENANCE IN THE SIERRA MORENA · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: DON QUIXOTE DOING PENANCE IN THE SIERRA MORENA
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Spain; Europe; Sierra Morena
Description: Don Quixote decides to undertake penance in the wilderness of the Sierra Morena to obtain honor for himself. Quixote tells Sancho Panza that he is worried about his princess Dulcinea, and writes a letter which Sancho Panza must deliver to her. Panza agrees, but asks why Quixote will not join him. Quixote explains that he must be left alone in the mountain while he thinks of his princess Dulcinea so that he may go mad like other fictional knight-errants such as Amadis of Gaul. Sancho Panza hesitantly agrees, and leaves Don Quixote to his penance on the back of Rocinante, which Quixote has allowed Panza to ride. As Sancho Panza leaves, Don Quixote strips his clothes and performs a hand-stand to demonstrate his madness and the torture which he is going inflicting on himself in thinking of Dulcinea.
Image Creator: George Cruikshank (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24763
Language: eng
Source Name: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Parent Collection: 1899 Macmillan
Image: mta_24763_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in bookplates; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Penance; Literature