[Gulliver’s looking out the window] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver’s looking out the window]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lisbon; Portugal; Europe
Description: After arriving in Lisbon, Gulliver stayed with the captain of the ship that brought him from New Holland to Portugal, Don Pedro. Gulliver refused to go outside in Lisbon, so after arriving at Don Pedro’s house, he would look out the window, trying to readjust to life in Europe. Here we see Gulliver looking out the window terrified. Gulliver found readjusting to European life very difficult, because he became so accustomed to the Country of the Houyhnhnms and the virtue of the Houyhnhnms, that in Europe all he saw were the vices of humans. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Breviere (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21276
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21276_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: voyages, imaginary; voyages and travels; fictional works; Fictitious characters