[A crew member sees Brobdingnag for the first time] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A crew member sees Brobdingnag for the first time]
Subject: Sailors; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Ships; Sailing; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here a crew member on Gulliver’s ship sees Brobdingnag for the first time. He stands in the crow’s nest on the ship and points to land. This image appears at the beginning of chapter one, and the letter “H” is in the top left corner as the first word of the chapter is “Having”.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22013
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22013_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Sailors; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Ships; Sailing; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver