[a professor from Grand Academy on Balnibarbi holds a stack of papers outlining a conspiracy against the government] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a professor from Grand Academy on Balnibarbi holds a stack of papers outlining a conspiracy against the government]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a professor from the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi holding a stack of papers that had details about a conspiracy against the government. The professor advises that those named in the papers be closely monitored at all times, naming specifically while they were using the bathroom, as this is when men were most thoughtful. This conspiracy is thought to be an allusion to the trial of Francis Atterbury, the bishop of Rochester for allegedly plotting with the Jacobites. Atterbury was charged with treason in 1722 and was exiled to France. The evidence used against him were papers found in his close-stool. Many believe this evidence to have been fabricated. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21016
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21016_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: scholars in literature; Scientists in literature; politics in literature; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures