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Title: [Voltaire]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe; France
Description: This is a bust of Voltaire, an influential philosopher writing at the same time as Swift. Voltaire promoted the translation of Gulliver’s Travels into other languages (first French) on the European continent. The image is a part of Swift’s biography which precedes Part One of Gulliver’s Travels. The purpose of this illustration in the biography is to provide context for the political atmosphere and insight into Swift’s satirical writings. 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:21487
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21487_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Philosophy; Philosophers; Voltaire; Fictional Works; Translating and Interpreting; Biography