[Representations of all of Gulliver’s travels] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Representations of all of Gulliver’s travels]
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Fictional Works; Imaginary Creatures; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Lilliput (Imaginary Place)
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; Lilliput; Laputa; England
Description: Here we see Gulliver with representations of his travels. In the foreground we see Gulliver kneeling. A giant from Brobdingnag sits on top of a podium. The giant holds the floating island of Laputa over his head, with Gulliver’s ship in front of him. A Houyhnhnm and a Yahoo are inside of the podium. In Gulliver’s hands is a Lilliputian. This image also appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21471
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver’s Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21471_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Fictional Works; Imaginary Creatures; Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Lilliput (Imaginary Place)