[Shellfish on New Holland] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Shellfish on New Holland]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: New Holland; Australia
Description: Here we see shellfish including oysters and limpets on the shore of New Holland, where Gulliver landed after leaving the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver ate them raw, as he did not dare make a fire because he was unarmed and afraid that the peoples of New Holland might find and hurt him. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21870
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21870_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Shellfish; satire; sea travel; sailing; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures