[Bread and Onion] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Bread and Onion]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: Resting upon a surface lies a piece of bread on the left, two heads of garlic on the right and a knife in the foreground. The image is oddly occasioned by Don Quixote saying "Sancho can live as well upon bread and onions as governor Sancho can upon capon and partridge" (Page 458).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Unknown (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26890
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26890_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Food habits; Fiction; Bread; Literature