I have perused many of their books, especially those on history and morality. - Page 162 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: I have perused many of their books, especially those on history and morality. - Page 162
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Reading; Study and Teaching; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here Gulliver reads books on Brobdingnag. Gulliver climbs a ladder to be closer to the text. He read widely in the royal library but was particularly interested in books on the history of the giants of Brobdingnag, and philosophical texts on morality. He did this to better understand how the giants of Brobdingnag differed from Europeans.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22045
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22045_OBJ.png