[Gulliver sees great kings and their ancestors] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver sees great kings and their ancestors]
Subject: Kings and rulers; Magic; Resurrection in literature; ghosts; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see one of the great European kings with their ancestors. Much to Gulliver’s surprise, many kings had ancestors who were not royal. Some families had fiddlers, courtiers, barbers, and prelates as ancestors, rather than a line of royalty. Gulliver amused himself by tracing different features through family lines, both physical attributes and characteristics of one’s personality. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21070
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21070_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Kings and rulers; Magic; Resurrection in literature; ghosts; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures