[Gulliver plays piano on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver plays piano on Brobdingnag]
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see Gulliver playing the piano in Brobdingnag. The piano is over sixty feet long, so Gulliver devised a new way of playing using two round bars. Gulliver used this method to play traditional English songs for the court of Brobdingnag. Gulliver stands on a raised bench. The king and queen look over the edge of the piano, watching Gulliver perform. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Sears (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21419
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21419_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: piano; Concerts; giants; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place)