[Gulliver learns to read the language of the Giants from Brobdingnag from Glumdalclitch] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver learns to read the language of the Giants from Brobdingnag from Glumdalclitch]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Giants; Reading; Language; Teaching; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: In this image we see Gulliver learning to read the language of the giants from Brobdingnag. We see Glumdalclitch’s hands, one holding the book, the other holding a pointer. On the page we see different letters, Glumdalclitch pointing to different ones. Gulliver is seated, holding on to one page. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21605
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21605_OBJ.png