[The eagle carrying Gulliver in his house away from Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The eagle carrying Gulliver in his house away from Brobdingnag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the eagle that carried Gulliver in his house away from Brobdingnag. The eagle picked up Gulliver’s house and carried it out over the ocean before dropping it. Gulliver was then rescued by a merchant’s ship. The image appears at the beginning of the eighth chapter, foreshadowing Gulliver’s escape from Brobdingnag. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20946
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20946_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: eagles; sea travel; sailing; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures