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Alternative Title
Rosinantë
Description
43. Rosinantë. The horse of the knight of La Mancha in Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Exhibit label:
ROSINANTE,THE HORSE OF DON QUIXOTE.
A gift from Ǣsred, Our Lady of Compromise.
—"Before Ǣsred in Autumn" in These Restless Heads.
Physical Description
This figurine was unavailable at the time of digitization. An imaginative rendering was created by Minuet Curry. In it, a brown horse bends its head low while chewing grass over a green field.
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Knights and knighthood; Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/png
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 43, Rosinantë, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
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