Fig: III. Tom: II. Pag: 50 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fig: III. Tom: II. Pag: 50
Subject: Laputians; Inventions; Gulliver; Travels; Imaginary Places; Fictional Works
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: Laputa; England
Description: This image depicts an invention created by Laputian Projectors. The invention is to rework the Laputian language. On each of the squares is a symbol representing a word or phrase in the Laputian language. There are handles which would be turned to create different phrases which would then be analyzed. This image is the same as that in the 1727 German von Wiering edition.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:26935
Language: ger
Source Name: Des Capitains Lemuel Gulliver’s Reisen in unterschiedliche entfernte und unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Des Capitains Lemuel Gulliver Reisen in unterschiedliche entfernte und unbekannte Länder. Anonymous Woodcut Engravings (1739)
Image: mta_26935_OBJ.jpg