[Gulliver is seen through a folding razor on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver is seen through a folding razor on Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Razor blades; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see Gulliver standing behind a folding razor which was used by the King of Brobdingnag’s barber during the morning ceremony called the Levee. The Levee was a daily ceremony that originated in France and spread to other monarchies quickly thereafter. Gulliver attended the Levee and asked to take the soap with the King’s beard hair which he then used to make himself a new comb. In the image we see the bar of soap used on the bottom right corner, labeled “savou”. On the handle of the blade is the letter “J”, which is the first letter of the chapter. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20931
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20931_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Razor blades; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters