[The Queen of Laputa and her children] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Queen of Laputa and her children]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Laputa; England
Description: Here we see the queen of Laputa with her two children. All three figures are wearing the traditional Laputan motifs of mathematical and musical figures. The king of Laputa and his two eldest sons are not permitted to leave the island for fear that something might happen with the trajectory of the island and it might come crashing down or remain in one place blocking the sun and causing disease. These occurrences would happen if the king wanted to punish a region on Balnibarbi (the land underneath Laputa). The queen was only permitted to leave the island after she was past child-bearing years. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21685
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_21685_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Children; Queens; Satire; Floating Islands; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures