“They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habits.” · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habits.”
Subject: Ghosts; Resurrection in Literature; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Glubbdubdrib; England
Description: While Gulliver was in Glubbdubdrib he met with several ghosts from history. Here Gulliver meets with the servants of princes and nobles. To Gulliver’s surprise, many of these men were erased from history, and called traitors. Many of these men died in disgrace or in poverty.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22084
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22084_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Ghosts; Resurrection in Literature; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures