[Lawyers depicted as spiders] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Lawyers depicted as spiders]
Subject: Corruption; Lawyers; Spider Webs; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: England; Britain; United Kingdom
Description: Here we see a satire of lawyers as a spider in a web. The image represents Gulliver’s unflattering views on lawyers as insects. The image represents lawyers wrapping up their clients by confusing them, just as spiders trap their prey in their webs. The image appears at the beginning of chapter six, and the letter M appears in the top corner because my is the first word of the chapter.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22109
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22109_OBJ.png