[Brooms used in the court of Luggnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Brooms used in the court of Luggnag]
Subject: rituals; Political customs and rites; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a pile of brooms used to sweep the floor in the court of Luggnagg. It was a custom on the island of Luggnagg where someone who wanted to be accepted into the court would be required to lick the floor in front of the King. If the person licking the floor was a stranger, as was the case for Gulliver, the floor would be swept beforehand to remove most of the dust. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21082
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21082_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: rituals; Political customs and rites; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures