[A giant baby tries to eat Gulliver on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A giant baby tries to eat Gulliver on Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: In this image we see the farmer’s baby trying to put Gulliver in its mouth. The baby holds Gulliver by the waist and tries to put Gulliver’s head into its mouth. Gulliver’s legs and arms flail in concern. A woman holds the baby and watches what is happening before stopping the baby from killing Gulliver. The baby wears a bonnet and a shirt with a vest. 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:21596
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21596_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels