[Giant wasps attack Gulliver Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Giant wasps attack Gulliver Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; wasps; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see three giant wasps attacking Gulliver after he was given a piece of sweet cake. Two wasps are flying around Gulliver’s head, while a third is lying, dead, on its back in front of Gulliver. Gulliver stands, waving his sword, defending himself from the wasps. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20917
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20917_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; wasps; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters