[Several types of reptiles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Several types of reptiles]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe; United Kingdom
Description: Here we see several types of reptiles and insects, including a snake, a spider, a slug, a worm, a caterpillar, and two lizards. They are shown because following Gulliver’s explanation of the various political and legal traditions in England, many of which were very corrupt, the King of Brobdingnag compared the English and their nobility, politicians, lawyers, among others to vermin. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Piaud (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20940
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20940_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: reptiles; insects; Corruption; politics in literature; politics and culture; Kings and rulers; fictional works; Fictitious characters