Cast of the Interior of the Cranium of Swift · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cast of the Interior of the Cranium of Swift
Subject: Skull; Autopsy; Crania (Brachiopoda); Biography; Jonathan Swift
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; United Kingdom; Britain; England
Description: Here we see a cast of Swift’s cranium. After his death, Swift’s head was cut off and a cast was made of his brain. This was done as a way of immortalizing his life and work. This image appears as part of the biography of Jonathan Swift.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:21975
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_21975_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Skull; Autopsy; Crania (Brachiopoda); Biography; Jonathan Swift