[A mercenary soldier] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A mercenary soldier]
Subject: Mercenary troops; Mercenary troops in literature; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a mercenary soldier on the battlefield, holding a musket with bayonet attachment. Gulliver explains that mercenary troops were available for hire for any nation, and thus did not necessitate a patriotic army. When Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels in 1727, mercenary troops were common, and we are just beginning to see national armies. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Rambert (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21204
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21204_OBJ.png