[Gulliver describes gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver describes gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see two stacks of cannon balls with two cannons. This image appears when Gulliver describes gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag, offering to teach the King’s military to use it. The King is appalled at the thought of such a violent invention. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20941
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20941_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Gunpowder; weapons; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place)