[A scientist from the Grand Academy of Lagado embraces Gulliver] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A scientist from the Grand Academy of Lagado embraces Gulliver]
Subject: Learned Institutions and Societies; Scientists in Literature; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; Lagado; Laputa; England
Description: Here we see a scientist from the Grand Academy of Lagado on Balnibarbi who greeted Gulliver by embracing him. Gulliver is now dressed in the style of the locals, wearing a jacket with a motif of astronomical and mathematical symbols on it. Gulliver was unhappy to be greeted in this manner as the room had a terrible stench. This smell was caused by the scientist’s experiments. He was attempting to restore excrement to the food that was consumed. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21693
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21693_OBJ.png