[Gulliver walks through Grand Academy of Lagado] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver walks through Grand Academy of Lagado]
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; Lagado; Laputa; England
Description: Here we see the Gulliver and his guide walking through the halls of the Grand Academy of Lagado in Balnibarbi. Here scholars gather to work on problems and innovate. Gulliver visits the Academy and sees first-hand the experiment that the scholars are working on. The Academy is made up of several buildings and Swift likely took his inspiration from Gresham College in the City of London which housed the Royal Society. In this image there is the letter “C” on a light fixture because it is the first letter of the chapter. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21691
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21691_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures