The Innkeeper's Wife & Daughter taking Care of ye Don after being beaten & bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)
William Hogarth|Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1756 or after
Medium
Etching and engraving; third state of three
Dimensions
sheet: 9 7/16 x 6 7/8 in. (24 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.35(58)
Tags
Don QuixoteMenWomen
About the Artist
William Hogarth|Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1697–1764
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, and pictorial satirist who became the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Born into poverty in London, the son of a failed schoolmaster who was imprisoned for debt, Hogarth's early experiences with the harsh realities of 18th-century urban life profoundly shaped his artistic vision. After apprenticing with si...