[Gulliver presents Captain John Biddel with a small cow from Blefuscu] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver presents Captain John Biddel with a small cow from Blefuscu]
Subject: Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; fictional works; imaginary places; cattle; sailing
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe; United Kingdom
Description: Here we see Gulliver showing Captain John Biddel who rescued Gulliver and brought him aboard his English Merchant Ship one of the cows he brought from Blefuscu. Captain Biddel allowed Gulliver to board his ship and return to England. As thanks Gulliver offers one of the miniature cows to Biddel. In the image we see the two men in a room on the ship with a table separating the two. Gulliver holds the cow in his hands while Biddel looks in astonishment at it. Biddel is on the right and is wearing a wig as was the fashion of the eighteenth century. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20875
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20875_OBJ.png