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Title: II. 18.
Subject: ruins; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see the ruins of an ancient city. There are partial columns and sections of porticoes. The architecture suggests that this was a Roman city, possibly Pompeii. There is a large tower in the centre of the image, with a tree that is curving back towards the ground creating an archway in the foreground. Archaeology and the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum were well underway when this edition of Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1839, and images of the ruins were being sent all over the world. This image comes at the end of the tenth chapter, in which Gulliver learns about the immortals on Luggnag. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Sears (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21132
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21132_OBJ.png