[Gulliver explains gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver explains gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag]
Subject: Gunpowder; Military Planning; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: In this image we see two stacks of cannonballs with two cannons. This image appears when Gulliver describes gunpowder to the king of Brobdingnag, offering to teach the king’s military to use it. The king is appalled at the thought of such a violent invention. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21643
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21643_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Gunpowder; Military Planning; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels