[Robert Walpole] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Robert Walpole]
Subject: Portraits; Gulliver's Travels; Jonathan Swift; Biography; Robert Walpole; Politics in Literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: United Kingdom; Great Britain; England
Description: This is a bust of Robert Walpole. The image is a part of Swift’s biography which precedes Part One of Gulliver’s Travels, in which the biographer is describing the political climate of the early eighteenth century to provide readers with context for the story. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21482
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21482_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Portraits; Gulliver's Travels; Jonathan Swift; Biography; Robert Walpole; Politics in Literature