[A politician bribes a voter] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A politician bribes a voter]
Subject: politics in literature; politics and culture; Voter intimidation; Bribery; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; United Kingdom; Europe
Description: Here we see a politician bribing a voter. The politician is on the right and hands the man on the left a piece of paper that reads “vote … B”, and a small bag of money. In this chapter Gulliver talks with the King of Brobdingnag about English traditions. Gulliver tells the King about diplomacy, religion, the justice system, the arts, the financial system, and the nobility, then debated these issues with the king. This image comes when Gulliver is discussing the corrupt political atmosphere and the election of officials. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20937
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20937_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: politics in literature; politics and culture; Voter intimidation; Bribery; fictional works; Fictitious characters