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
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3005804i
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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

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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.

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Wellcome Collection 3005804i

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