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

Title: [Grand Academy of Lagado]
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lagado; Balnibarbi; Laputa; England
Description: Here we see 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 same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21690
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_21690_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures