[Bust of Robert Walpole] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Bust of Robert Walpole]
Subject: prime ministers; politics and culture; politics in literature; portrait busts; portrait drawing
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; United Kingdom; Britain; Europe
Description: This is a bust of Robert Walpole, who served as the first de facto Prime Minister of England between 1721 and 1742. The image is a part of Swift’s Biography which precedes Part One of Gulliver’s Travels, in which the biographer is describing the political climate of the early eighteenth century to provide readers with context for the story.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20784
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20784_OBJ.png