1896
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sancho Panza, Governor of Barataria, going the Round with the Night Watch is a 1896 watercolor by Charles Green, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor by Charles Green shows a moment from a play based on *Don Quixote*. It’s a quiet scene—Sancho Panza, a governor, watches a guard question a woman in men’s clothes. She was caught past curfew. The play ran in London in 1895 with Henry Irving in the lead role. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum for more art like this.
This watercolor depicts a scene from the one-act play *A Chapter from Don Quixote*, based on Cervantes' novel, in which Sancho Panza, governor of Barataria, oversees a night watch patrol. The composition shows a young woman in male attire, caught violating curfew, illuminated by torchlight as she is examined by two watchmen beside Sancho. The work was created in 1896 by Charles Green to illustrate the play’s second scene, which adapts an episode from the novel’s second part.
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Charles Green R.I. (1840–1898), was a British watercolourist and illustrator. He was the brother of Towneley Green R.I. (1836–1899).
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