[A member of the cavalry on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A member of the cavalry on Brobdingnag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: In this image we see Gulliver sitting on a base of a column, looking up at a member of the cavalry on Brobdingnag. The cavalry rides a horse and holds a sword. He wears military attire and helmet. Gulliver tells the reader that when measuring the horse and its rider together they stand over one hundred feet tall. 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:21646
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21646_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Cavalry; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels