[an eagle carries Gulliver’s house over the ocean] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [an eagle carries Gulliver’s house over the ocean]
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see the eagle carrying away Gulliver’s house from Brobdingnag. In the image we see the eagle’s head with a rope attached to Gulliver’s head in his beak. Gulliver leans out the window, looking up at the eagle. We see the straps attached to Gulliver’s house which were worn like a backpack when he was travelling. This is the smaller of his two houses, as this was designed for travel. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21426
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21426_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: eagles; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures