[Gulliver sits on the leaf of a flower on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver sits on the leaf of a flower on Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Flowers in Literature; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Giants
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lilliput; England
Description: Here we see Gulliver sitting on the leaves of a flower in Brobdingnag, where everything is giant compared to Gulliver. In the centre of the flower is the letter “A” because the first word of the chapter is “auch”. 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:21585
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21585_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Flowers in Literature; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Giants