[The Queen of Brobdingnag’s dwarf torments Gulliver by shaking a tree] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Queen of Brobdingnag’s dwarf torments Gulliver by shaking a tree]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see the Queen of Brobdingnag’s dwarf shaking an apple tree to drop apples on Gulliver. Gulliver was walking through the garden when the dwarf saw him and began to shake the tree, dropping apples on Gulliver to torment him. In the image, Gulliver is lying underneath four apples with only his head and arms sticking out. The dwarf shakes the tree. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Breviere (Illustrator);Francais (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21622
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21622_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels