[A professor from the Grand Academy presents evidence of a conspiracy] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A professor from the Grand Academy presents evidence of a conspiracy]
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars in Literature; Politics; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; Laputa; England
Description: Here we see a professor from the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi holding a stack of papers that had details about a conspiracy against the government. The professor advises that those named in the papers be closely monitored at all times, naming specifically while they were using the bathroom, as this is when men were most thoughtful. This conspiracy is thought to be an allusion to the trial of Francis Atterbury, the bishop of Rochester for allegedly plotting with the Jacobites. Atterbury was charged with treason in 1722 and was exiled to France. The evidence used against him were papers found in his close-stool. Many believe this evidence to have been fabricated. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21704
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21704_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars in Literature; Politics; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures

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