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Title: [Ship’s anchor]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: This image is of a large anchor with rope. Two large ships are visible in the background. The image appears at the beginning of a letter from Richard Tymp, Swift’s cousin. The anchor is also used to represent the letter I, as the first letter of the German word ich (meaning I), which is the first word of the chapter. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20794
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20794_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: anchors; ships