[Gulliver eats dinner with the Governor of Glubbdubdrib] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver eats dinner with the Governor of Glubbdubdrib]
Subject: Magic; Ghosts; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Glubbdubdrib; England
Description: Here we see Gulliver dining with the Governor of Glubbdubdrib, who was a necromancer. Over dinner Gulliver tells the Governor about his time on Balnibarbi. The dinner was served by ghosts, and Gulliver is visibly uncomfortable. Gulliver tells us that over time he became used to the sight of the ghosts. The ghosts are very skeletal and gaunt, and the Governor could make them disappear with a snap of his fingers. The Governor wears robes with a skull and an owl on the front, and a pointed cap. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21741
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_21741_OBJ.png