Fig: IV. Tom: 1. pag: 119 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fig: IV. Tom: 1. pag: 119
Subject: Gulliver; Fictional Works; Travels; Voyages; Giants; Imaginary Places
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: This image represents Gulliver’s adventures in Brobdingnag. The central figure is the farmer who first discovered Gulliver, standing under a tree. The Giant holds Gulliver in his hand, showing the reader the difference in size between Gulliver, and the Giants of Brobdingnag. In the background, we see an eagle carrying a box, depicting the episode in which Gulliver left Brobdingnag, as the box in which he lived and travelled was picked up by an eagle, and carried over the open water, before the eagle dropped Gulliver into the ocean, later to be discovered by a ship. We see another giant in the background, close to the water, presumably the page who left Gulliver’s box unattended, thus allowing it to be picked up by the eagle. This image is the same as that in the 1727 German von Wiering edition.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:26928
Language: ger
Source Name: Des Capitains Lemuel Gulliver’s Reisen in unterschiedliche entfernte und unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Des Capitains Lemuel Gulliver Reisen in unterschiedliche entfernte und unbekannte Länder. Anonymous Woodcut Engravings (1739)
Image: mta_26928_OBJ.jpg