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The castle in the moon : a new adventure not mentioned by Cerventes [sic].

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The castle in the moon : a new adventure not mentioned by Cerventes [sic].

[London] : Pubd. Augt 22d, 1782 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1782]
etching, hand colored
image: 235 x 333 mm; plate mark: 249 x 352 mm; sheet: 250 x 353 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.181
Notes
By James Gillray.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Don Quixote personifying Spain, mounted on a dejected Rozinante, sitting erect on his saddle and addressing Sancho (Holland) who sits astride a small ass. They are on the edge of a cliff by the sea. On the neck of the Don's horse stands a small monkey (France) dressed like a Frenchman with a long pigtail queue; he holds the slack reins with his left hand while he points with his sword towards a castle in the sky in a circle inset in a crescent moon which is inscribed "Gibraltar". He says, "Sa - Sa - Ah - ha! dere I was have dem! & dere! Ah - ha!" Don Quixote, who wears Mambrino's helmet with a feather in it, a cloak, slashed doublet and breeches, and top-boots with large spurs, has an expression of melancholy dignity; he says, "Sancho! we'll sit down before the Castle & starve them out; Sancho." Sancho wears a hat like an inverted flower-pot with a short pipe stuck through its band; he says with an expression of dismay, "Starve them out. O Lord! O Lord! we're like to be starv'd Ourselves first! ther's not a mouthful left in the Wallet, & I'm grown as thin as a Shotten Herring."

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints