[Bust of Jonathan Swift] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Bust of Jonathan Swift]
Subject: Portrait; Gulliver's Travels; Biography; Jonathan Swift
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Great Britain; United Kingdom
Description: This is a portrait of Jonathan Swift. The image is a part of Swift’s biography which precedes Part One of Gulliver’s Travels. The purpose of this illustration in the biography is to provide context for the political atmosphere and insight into Swift’s satirical writings. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21490
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21490_OBJ.png