[A crowd of giants watches Gulliver perform on Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A crowd of giants watches Gulliver perform on Brobdingnag]
Subject: giants; One person shows (Performing arts); Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see Gulliver performing for a crowd of Giants. The Farmer sold tickets to other giants to see Gulliver. On the front right, we see Glumdalclitch speaking to Gulliver and giving him instructions, while an older woman leans over her shoulder. Two other children stand in front of the table watching Gulliver. Behind the children are their parents. There are two more rows of giants in shadow. Gulliver stands on a table holding a piece of straw as though it was a fencing sword. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20906
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20906_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: giants; One person shows (Performing arts); Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters