A scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: A scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; Lagado; Laputa
Description: During his time on Balnibarbi, Gulliver visited the Grand Academy of Lagado and the scholars who worked there. Here we see a scholar who was developing an alternate system of communication to talking. His theory was that speaking corroded people’s lungs, and that an alternate system could protect the lungs and prolong people’s lives.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22072
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22072_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Communication; Scholars in Literature; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Satire