[Gulliver studying medicine] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver studying medicine]
Subject: medicine; study and teaching; sea travel; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; England; United Kingdom; Britain; Europe
Description: Gulliver was trained in medicine through an apprenticeship in London, which was the typical mode of becoming a surgeon in the eighteenth century. Gulliver used this training to become a surgeon on a ship. Here we see Gulliver studying, surrounded by various vials, skeletons, and books. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21292
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21292_OBJ.png