Swift’s Head Taken After Death · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Swift’s Head Taken After Death
Subject: Autopsy; Death and Burial; Decapitated Head; Busts; Biography; Jonathan Swift
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: England; United Kingdom; Britain; Europe
Description: Here we see the profile of Swift’s head. 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:21974
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_21974_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Autopsy; Death and Burial; Decapitated Head; Busts; Biography; Jonathan Swift