[Gulliver sees great kings of history and their ancestors] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver sees great kings of history and their ancestors]
Subject: Kings; Rulers; Ghosts; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Glubbdubdrib; Europe; England
Description: Here we see one of the great European kings with their ancestors. Much to Gulliver’s surprise, many kings had ancestors who were not royal. Some families had fiddlers, courtiers, barbers, and prelates as ancestors, rather than a line of royalty. Gulliver amused himself by tracing different features through family lines, both physical attributes and characteristics of one’s personality. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21747
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_21747_OBJ.png