[Giants on Brobdingnag crowd around to examine Gulliver] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Giants on Brobdingnag crowd around to examine Gulliver]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; giants
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see a group of giants crowding around to get a look at Gulliver. Most of the faces of the giants are obscured in some way to show that they are huddling close together. Gulliver stands in the centre of the ring of giants. Gulliver leans forward towards the giant on the far left as though he is speaking to one of the giants with his hat in his hand. This giant is likely the farmer who found him as he is not wearing a hat, just as he was shown in other images. All the other giants wear some form of cap. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20895
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20895_OBJ.png