[A variety of reptiles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A variety of reptiles]
Subject: Reptiles; Insects; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here we see several types of reptiles and insects, including a snake, a spider, a slug, a worm, a caterpillar, and two lizards. They are shown because following Gulliver’s explanation of the various political and legal traditions in England, many of which were very corrupt, the king of Brobdingnag compared the English and their nobility, politicians, lawyers, among others to “vermin”. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21642
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21642_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Reptiles; Insects; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels