[Detail of Laputan clothing] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Detail of Laputan clothing]
Subject: Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Laputa; England
Description: Gulliver describes Laputan clothing as having a motif that combined suns, moons, and stars, with various musical instruments, including violins, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, as well as other instruments that were not played in Europe. This image is a detail of that pattern. In the centre is the letter “A”, because it is the first letter of the word “Als” - the first word of the second chapter. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21672
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21672_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures