[Gulliver’s ship sails into Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver’s ship sails into Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; ships; sailing; sea travel
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see Gulliver’s ship sailing into Brobdingnag. The ship appears quite small compared to the landscape of Brobdingnag. Large cliffs and hills surround the bay into which the ship sails. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20890
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20890_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; ships; sailing; sea travel