[Men that Gulliver thought to destroy life in Europe] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Men that Gulliver thought to destroy life in Europe]
Subject: Lawyers; Physicians; Criminals; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the busts of the types of men that Gulliver thought to ruin his life in Europe, and whom he was glad to be free of in the Country of the Houyhnhnms. These men include: physicians, lawyers, informants, censurers, backbiters, pick-pockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, tedious talkers, controverters, ravishers, murderers, virtuosos, and robbers. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Verdeil (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21259
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21259_OBJ.png