[a giant’s eye looking at Gulliver] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a giant’s eye looking at Gulliver]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a giant’s eye looking at Gulliver. Only Gulliver’s upper body is visible in the image, with his back facing the viewer. In the giant’s pupil is the letter M, which is the first letter of the Meine, 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:20903
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20903_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters