[Two men fist fight in the street] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two men fist fight in the street]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Fighting; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see two men fist fighting in the street, while a crowd watches from behind a short wall. Their hats and coats are on the ground. In the background we see a large castle, and a rooster. In this chapter Gulliver talks with the king of Brobdingnag about English traditions. Gulliver tells the king about diplomacy, religion, the justice system, the arts, the financial system, and the nobility, then debated these issues with the king. This image comes when Gulliver is discussing the judicial system. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Breviere (Illustrator);Francais (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21638
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21638_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Fighting; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels