[Gulliver plays piano using sticks on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver plays piano using sticks on Brobdingnag]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see Gulliver playing the piano in Brobdingnag. The piano is over sixty feet long, so Gulliver devised a new way of playing using two round bars. Gulliver used this method to play traditional English songs for the court of Brobdingnag. Gulliver stands on a raised bench. The king and queen look over the edge of the piano, watching Gulliver perform. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Breviere (Illustrator);Francais (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21634
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21634_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Concerts; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Piano; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Giants; Gulliver's Travels