[Eagle carries Gulliver’s house away from Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Eagle carries Gulliver’s house away from Brobdingnag]
Subject: eagles; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the eagle carrying away Gulliver’s house from Brobdingnag. In the image we see the eagle’s head with a rope attached to Gulliver’s head in his beak. Gulliver leans out the window, looking up at the eagle. We see the straps attached to Gulliver’s house which were worn like a backpack when he was travelling. This is the smaller of his two houses, as this was designed for travel. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20949
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20949_OBJ.png