[Gulliver leaves his family before his voyage to Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver leaves his family before his voyage to Brobdingnag]
Subject: ships; sailing; sea travel; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see Gulliver saying goodbye to his family as he leaves for another voyage only two months after returning from Lilliput and Blefuscu. Everyone here is crying. Gulliver’s wife is on his left while his daughter and son hug him. In the background we see the docks and the ship that Gulliver was leaving on. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Breviere (Illustrator); Hebert (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21385
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21385_OBJ.png