[A giant baby tries to eat Gulliver on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A giant baby tries to eat Gulliver on Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; giants; babies
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see the farmer’s baby trying to put Gulliver in its mouth. The baby holds Gulliver by the waist and tries to put Gulliver’s head into its mouth. Gulliver’s legs and arms flail in concern. A woman holds the baby and watches what is happening before stopping the baby from killing Gulliver. The baby wears a bonnet and a shirt with a vest. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20900
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20900_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; giants; babies