[Two giants from Brobdingnag speak with Gulliver] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two giants from Brobdingnag speak with Gulliver]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: In this image we see two giants looking at Gulliver. The giant in the front wears circular glasses with shoulder length hair and a beard. He also has hoop earrings with beads on the bottom. The second giant stands behind the left shoulder of the first. He wears a cap and has a large grin. Gulliver stands on the table at shoulder height, leaning back from the giants. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Breviere (Illustrator);Francais (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21601
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21601_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels