“The people in the streets walked fast, and were generally in rags.” - Page 212 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “The people in the streets walked fast, and were generally in rags.” - Page 212
Subject: Ruins; Mathematical Instruments; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Gulliver; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Lagado; Balnibarbi; England; Laputa
Description: Here we see people in the city of Lagado in Balnibarbi. Gulliver tells the reader that the city was in ruins, as the buildings were crumbling, and the citizens wore rags. In this image we see a citizen carrying mathematical instruments through town.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22067
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22067_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Ruins; Mathematical Instruments; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Gulliver; Imaginary Creatures