[Gulliver dines with the Queen of Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver dines with the Queen of Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Dinners; Dining; Queens; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: In this image we see Gulliver eating with the Queen of Brobdingnag. She eats a drumstick while Gulliver sits on the table next to her. The queen wears lizard earrings. Gulliver sits at a smaller table underneath the queen’s arm. He has his own plate of food and looks up at the queen as she eats. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21610
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21610_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Dinners; Dining; Queens; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels