[English legal records] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [English legal records]
Subject: Legal authorities; Legal services; law; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In chapter five, Gulliver explains several aspects of society in England. Here we see a stack of books that have records of past court cases. The image appears when Gulliver explains the rule of precedent to his Master. The rule of precedent is when a judge or lawyers refer to the outcome of a past court case to determine what should be done in a similar situation. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21816
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_21816_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Legal authorities; Legal services; law; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters