Don Quixote charging at a barber, under that the delusion that his shaving bowl is a helmet that makes its wearer invulnerable. Mezzotint by W. Giller, 1827, after A. Cooper.

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Don Quixote charging at a barber, under that the delusion that his shaving bowl is a helmet that makes its wearer invulnerable. Mezzotint by W. Giller, 1827, after A. Cooper.