[Gulliver shows Captain Biddel a cow from Blefuscu] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver shows Captain Biddel a cow from Blefuscu]
Subject: cattle; ships; sailing; sea travel; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary place)
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see Gulliver showing Captain John Biddel who rescued Gulliver and brought him aboard his English Merchant Ship one of the cows he brought from Blefuscu. Captain Biddel allowed Gulliver to board his ship and return to England. As thanks Gulliver offers one of the miniature cows to Biddel. In the image we see the two men in a room on the ship with a table separating the two. Gulliver holds the cow in his hands while Biddel looks in astonishment at it. Biddel is on the right and is wearing a wig as was the fashion of the eighteenth century. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21384
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21384_OBJ.png