[Bust of Voltaire] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Bust of Voltaire]
Subject: philosophy; Translating and interpreting; biography; portrait busts; portrait drawing
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; France; Europe
Description: This is a bust of Voltaire, an influential philosopher writing at the same time as Swift. Voltaire promoted the translation of Gulliver’s Travels into other languages, first French, on the European Continent. The image is a part of Swift’s Biography which precedes Part One of Gulliver’s Travels. The purpose of this illustration in the biography is to provide context for the political atmosphere and insight into Swift’s satirical writings. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20789
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20789_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: philosophy; Translating and interpreting; biography; portrait busts; portrait drawing