[A skeleton firing a cannon] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A skeleton firing a cannon]
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see a skeleton firing a cannon. This image appears at the beginning of chapter seven, in which Gulliver explains the use of gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag. Gulliver offers to teach the army of Brobdingnag to use gunpowder and cannons, but the King refuses, and is shocked at the violence of the invention and of the Europeans. The letter N is in the top right corner because the first word of the chapter is nothing.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22044
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22044_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Gunpowder; Skeleton; Weapons; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures