Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
- Date:
- 1700-1799
- Reference:
- 3005804i
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Description
An episode in "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), part II, chapter 47. The physician points to a meat dish with his stick and forbids Sancho Panza to eat a helping of it. On the right other people laugh, including a black man
Publication/Creation
1700-1799
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 25.9 x 29.3 cm
Lettering
Sancho at the magnificent feast prepar'd for him at his government of Barataria, is starved in the midst of plenty, Pedro Rezzio his phisician, out of great care for his health ordering every dish from the table before the Governour tasts it.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3005804i
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Location Status Access Closed stores