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Title: II. 18.
Subject: Immortality in literature; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the ruins of an ancient city. There are partial columns and sections of porticoes. The architecture suggests that this was a Roman city, possibly Pompeii. There is a large tower in the centre of the image, with a tree that is curving back towards the ground creating an archway in the foreground. Archaeology and the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum were well underway when this edition of Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1839, and images of the ruins were being sent all over the world. This image comes at the end of the tenth chapter, in which Gulliver learns about the immortals of Luggnag. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Sears (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21773
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_21773_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Immortality in literature; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures