[Gulliver reads in the library on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver reads in the library on Brobdingnag]
Subject: library; reading; scrolls; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: In this image we see Gulliver standing on a ladder, reading texts on Brobdingnag. The texts are written on scrolls, in a calligraphic style. Gulliver compares the writing style to that of Chinese script. Gulliver was given access to the royal library, and he read the texts while climbing on a ladder to see the text. Gulliver tells us that there are relatively few texts in the library. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21423
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21423_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: library; reading; scrolls; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); giants; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures