[Canaries on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Canaries on Brobdingnag]
Subject: canaries; birdcages; giants; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Captivity; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see two canaries in a cage. The image comes after the King of Brobdingnag said he wanted to find another woman who was the same size as Gulliver so they could reproduce, then keep his children as pets for other families on Brobdingnag. Gulliver’s response was that he would rather die than be kept in a cage like a canary. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20947
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20947_OBJ.png