[Gulliver and his guide walk through the halls of the Grand Academy of Lagado] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver and his guide walk through the halls of the Grand Academy of Lagado]
Subject: scholars in literature; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the Gulliver and his guide walking through the halls of the Grand Academy of Lagado in Balnibarbi. Here scholars gather to work on problems and innovate. Gulliver visits the Academy and sees first-hand the experiment that the scholars are working on. The Academy is made up of several buildings and Swift likely took his inspiration from Gresham College in the City of London which housed the Royal Society. In this image there is the letter C on a light fixture because it is the first letter of the chapter. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21000
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21000_OBJ.png