[Gulliver plays the piano in Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver plays the piano in Brobdingnag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see Gulliver playing the piano in Brobdingnag. The piano is over sixty feet long, so Gulliver devised a new way of playing using two round bars. Gulliver used this method to play traditional English songs for the court of Brobdingnag. Gulliver stands on a raised bench. The king and queen look over the edge of the piano, watching Gulliver perform. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Sears (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20933
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20933_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: piano; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters