[Gulliver shows a cow from Blefuscu to Captain John Biddel] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver shows a cow from Blefuscu to Captain John Biddel]
Subject: Cattle; Sailing; Ships; Sea Travel; Fictitious Characters; Fictional Works; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lilliput; England
Description: Here we see Gulliver showing Captain John Biddel who rescued Gulliver and brought him aboard his English Merchant Ship one of the cows he brought from Blefuscu. Captain Biddel allowed Gulliver to board his ship and return to England. As thanks Gulliver offers one of the miniature cows to Biddel. In the image we see the two men in a room on the ship with a table separating the two. Gulliver holds the cow in his hands while Biddel looks in astonishment at it. Biddel is on the right and is wearing a wig as was the fashion of the eighteenth century. 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:21582
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21582_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Cattle; Sailing; Ships; Sea Travel; Fictitious Characters; Fictional Works; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels