[Portrait of Jonathan Swift] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Portrait of Jonathan Swift]
Subject: portrait busts; portrait drawing; biography
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ireland; United Kingdom; England; Europe
Description: This is a portrait of Jonathan Swift. The image is a part of Swift’s Biography which precedes Part One of Gulliver’s Travels. The purpose of this illustration in the biography is to provide context for the political atmosphere and insight into Swift’s satirical writings. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Piaud (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20790
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20790_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: portrait busts; portrait drawing; biography