[Gulliver examines the scrolls on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver examines the scrolls on Brobdingnag]
Subject: scrolls; library; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see Gulliver standing on a ladder, reading texts on Brobdingnag. The texts are written on scrolls, in a calligraphic style. Gulliver compares the writing style to that of Chinese script. Gulliver was given access to the royal library, and he read the texts while climbing on a ladder to see the text. Gulliver tells us that there are relatively few texts in the library. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20943
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20943_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: scrolls; library; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures