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Title: [Caged canaries]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see two canaries in a cage. The image comes after the King of Brobdingnag said he wanted to find another woman who was the same size as Gulliver so they could reproduce, then keep his children as pets for other families on Brobdingnag. Gulliver’s response was that he would rather die than be kept in a cage like a canary. 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:21649
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21649_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Canaries; Satire; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels