II.10 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: II.10
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; England; Laputa
Description: At the political school at the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi a medical doctor was attempting to use his knowledge of disease to heal the political system. He monitored the politicians and after several sessions, he prescribed them medicine which would help them to alter their behaviour at the next meeting in order to make the government run more smoothly. The connection between the human body and the political body was an analogy was created during the Renaissance and lasted until the eighteenth century when Swift was writing. Swift satirizes this idea in this concept of a medical doctor working to reform the political system. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21702
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_21702_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scholars; Satire; Politics; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures