[Gulliver imagines his life as an immortal from Luggnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver imagines his life as an immortal from Luggnag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see Gulliver as an old man. He imagines how he would spend his life if he were born immortal like some individuals on Luggnag. He begins by saying that he would make himself rich by all arts and other methods. By proper management of his money, he estimates within two hundred years he would become the richest man in the kingdom. The second thing Gulliver says he would do would be to apply himself to learning all the arts and scientists. Finally, he says he would record every consequential event and their outcomes, specifically changes to customs, language, dress, and diet. He would do this to become a living treasury of knowledge, thus making himself the Oracle of the Nation. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21768
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21768_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: satire; Immortality; Immortality in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures