[A Laputan Scholar] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Laputan Scholar]
Subject: Scholars; Scientists; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Laputa; England
Description: This image is a depiction of a Laputan scholar. 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, as the Royal Society was satirized in the Third Part of the Book with the Philosophical Society of Laputa. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21484
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21484_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Scholars; Scientists; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures