Lazaro & the Cura from Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote by Henry D. Inglis
George Cruikshank
British, 1792–1878
1837
An etching by George Cruikshank that compresses a dramatic episode from Inglis’s Rambles into a single theatrical tableau—here a woman seizes a struggling man at an altar while a priest looks on.
On encountering the small, densely hatched image you’re struck by its theatrical composition: the cramped chapel, the woman’s decisive pull and the man’s resistance beneath a carved saint, all rendered with crisp, expressive linework.
Cruikshank’s compact, pointed illustrations helped shape nineteenth‑century popular readers’ visual imagination by turning travel and literary episodes—here invoking Don Quixote’s Spanish world—into accessible, sharply observed moral and comic scenes.
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 8 × 5 3/16" (20.3 × 13.2 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 11/16" (30 × 22 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
770.1964.2
Palette
Exhibitions
