William Hogarth - Print, book-illustration (BM 1868,0822.1636)

Quixote being cared for by the innkeeper's wife and daughter; in a tall, homely room, a pained Quixote lies on his front, the innkeeper's wife squinting as she applies a plaster to his back, Quixote looking longingly at her beautiful daughter as she stands at left, holding a jar; the hunchback servant girl, Maritornes, holds up a candle and looks leeringly over at Sancho, who is sceptical; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished). c.1726
Etching and engraving