[a method of coding using acrostics by scholars at the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a method of coding using acrostics by scholars at the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the letter N with people surrounding it. The letter N using a method of coding developed by scholars at the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi signifies the word plot. This image comes in a description of a conspiracy found by a professor from the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi. This conspiracy is thought to be an allusion to the trial of Francis Atterbury, the bishop of Rochester for allegedly plotting with the Jacobites. Atterbury was charged with treason in 1722 and was exiled to France. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21039
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21039_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Corruption; Conspiracy; satire; politics in literature; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures