[Gulliver sails in the Court of Brobdingnag] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver sails in the Court of Brobdingnag]
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Boats; Sailing; Queens; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Brobdingnag; England
Description: Here Gulliver sails on a boat made for him after telling the queen about his travels. The queen had a boat and a trough built for Gulliver to sail on and entertain the court. The trough is surrounded by the women of the court, all wearing long embroidered dresses with caps and veils. Some of the women hold fans, which was customary of court life in the eighteenth century. On the left-hand side, we see the queen’s dwarf, looking angrily at Gulliver, resentful of all the attention Gulliver was getting. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21626
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21626_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Brobdingnag (Imaginary Place); Boats; Sailing; Queens; Giants; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures