[Brooms used in the court of Luggnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Brooms used in the court of Luggnag]
Subject: rituals; Political customs and rites; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a pile of brooms used to sweep the floor in the court of Luggnag. It was a custom on the island of Luggnag where someone who wanted to be accepted into the court would be required to lick the floor in front of the King. If the person licking the floor was a stranger, as was the case for Gulliver, the floor would be swept beforehand to remove most of the dust. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21762
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_21762_OBJ.png