[a cabin boy first sees Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a cabin boy first sees Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Sailors; sailing; sea travel; ships; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: In this image we see a cabin boy from Gulliver’s ship first seeing Brobdingnag. He climbs one of two rope ladders up the mast. He waves down to others on the deck to signal his discovery to the others on the ship. The boy is barefoot and wears short pants and a loose shirt. Just below his feet we see the top of one of the sails. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21386
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21386_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Sailors; sailing; sea travel; ships; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures