[A teacher at a blackboard] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A teacher at a blackboard]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Teachers; Giants; Language; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see a teacher standing at a blackboard, with two students sitting in front of them. The image represents Gulliver’s nurse Glumdalclitch, teaching Gulliver the language of the giants of Brobdingnag. This image appears at the beginning of the second chapter, and the letter M is in the top right corner because the first word of the chapter is My.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22018
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22018_OBJ.png