[A flock of geese] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A flock of geese]
Subject: Conspiracy; Scholars in Literature; Geese; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Laputa; Balnibarbi; Lagado; England
Description: During his time on Balnibarbi Gulliver visited the Grand Academy of Lagado and the scholars who worked there. At the Academy Gulliver met a philosopher who believed he cracked a code about an ongoing political conspiracy. In this code a flock of geese represented the senate.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22077
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22077_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Conspiracy; Scholars in Literature; Geese; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver