A group of Indigenous men, women, and children gather around two large pots, one sitting on the ground and one resting on a fire. The group cooks and eats meat and fish. Two individuals sit in a large hammock while the rest sit and stand on the ground around the pots. One structure is visible in the background.
This illuminated image depicts a portrait of a woman named Iole holding a scepter in her hands. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Iole due to her ingenious plan to humiliate her husband, Hercules, after he murdered her father. Hercules had murdered her father after he rejected Hercules’ request to marry Iole. When Iole married Hercules, she made Hercules dress as a woman and showed him how to spin wool to humiliate him. He willingly did this as he was in love with Iole.
In this image we see Gulliver standing on a ladder, reading texts on Brobdingnag. The texts are written on scrolls, in a calligraphic style. Gulliver compares the writing style to that of Chinese script. Gulliver was given access to the royal library, and he read the texts while climbing on a ladder to see the text. Gulliver tells us that there are relatively few texts in the library. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
The image depicts a scene from page 136, in which Sir Pitt Crawley proposes to Rebecca Sharp. Sir Pitt is on both knees with one hand extended and the other pressed to his chest, leaning back. In front of him is Rebecca Sharp, turned away with her hands over her face as she leans on the mantle, crying.
In this image Gulliver floats in a bowl of milk. Glumdalclitch is seen behind the bowl as is the queen’s dwarf, who threw Gulliver into the milk out of jealousy. A piece of bread and a spoon sit next to the bowl. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Here we see a street in England. The houses are built in the Tudor half-timbered style. Two men carry a sedan chair down the street. This image appears at the end of Part Three, when Gulliver has returned home to his family in England following his travels to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan.
This engraving depicts Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons, riding a horse into battle with her lance pointed towards her enemies. We know that this figure is Penthesilea as her name is engraved to beside her head. We also know that this is a woman as her long hair is sticking out from underneath her helmet. Penthesilea, as Boccaccio describes, was a great warrior. She wanted to secure a strong heir for the Amazons, so she sought out Hector of Troy to provide her with an heir. She fought in a battle against the Greeks to prove herself worthy of bearing Hectors child. The enemies she is fighting against in the image are the Greek soldiers in the Trojan War.
In the centre of the image there is a tree. A fox sits at the base of the tree staring up at the crow sitting in the tree. The crow holds something in its beak. In the background, to the right of the tree there is a cottage among the trees and bushes.
An Indigenous man has been taken captive by another Indigenous group and is about to be executed. He is restrained by a rope tied around his waist, with each end of the rope held taut. The captive wears a feathered headdress and a necklace. Another man stands beside him holding a club raised over his head, poised to swing. There is a body lying on the ground behind the man with the club. Groups of people stand on either side of the captive to watch the execution, most of the men hold bows or clubs and at least one woman has a small child in a sling against her chest. Another woman crouches beside the prisoner with her hands over her face in distress. Several structures are visible in the background.
A Shepard stands with a club raised in the position to hit a fox, that is biting a horse’s nose on its hind legs. Another fox watches from the background.
Juno, the goddess of childbirth and marriage is depicted at the top of this illumination appearing to be in the sky. There are women on the right side of the image below Juno to signify Juno’s protection over the women. There is one woman holding a baby, as Juno is the goddess of childbirth. There are religious men standing on the left side of the image, with one man holding a censer and swinging it up to the sky in honour of Juno.
In the front of the image there is a lion's den where a lion is getting something handed over by a monkey. The lion is sitting down. Behind the den there is a tree and another monkey handing off a block of something to wolf. Both of monkeys look a like. In front of the lion's den there are residual bones from the lion's meal and they are covered embedded in the soil.
Gulliver was allowed to stay at the palace with the King of Laputa, and the King ordered new clothes for Gulliver. The clothes however, because of the Laputan's lack of attentiveness surrounding the world, were of poor quality and did not fit Gulliver. In this image we see Gulliver trying on his clothes which were much too large, while a tailor stands next to him, holding scissors, a compass, and protractor.
Here we see Gulliver sitting at a table reading a book. The image appears at the beginning of chapter twelve, where he reflects on writing his book. The book Gulliver is holding is likely an early edition of the book he wrote. His daughter is seen over his shoulder. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
There is a man climbing out of a chimney on the left side of the image. On the right side of the image, there is a man running into the forest while looking at the man in the chimney
Miss Glorvina O’Dowd dances past Major William Dobbin, trying to get his attention at the King’s Regiment ball. He is leaning against the wall, holding his hat in his hand, and paying no attention. In the background are assorted other officers and their ladies. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, “Glorvina tries her fascinations on the Major”.
After the death of Sempronio and Pármeno, Calisto asks Sosia and Tristan (the two figures in the foreground) to accompany him to Melibea’s house. When they arrive at her house, they place a ladder on the high wall surrounding the garden (in this illustration it is depicted inside the garden, in the background to the left), and Calisto climbs over. He spends the night with Melibea (in the background to the left), and based on the dialogue, we can assume he takes her virginity. However, daylight begins its approach too quickly, occasioning his departure. He, Sosia, and Tristan return to his house, and he ascends to his bedroom to get some sleep. When he is alone, he laments the shortness of his visit with Melibea.This illustration is quite similar to the one found on page 14 of the text, in terms of composition.
A tomb is shown, where the chiefs of this Indigenous group are laid to rest. The tomb sits inside a larger structure. It is set on thick logs that elevate it off the ground. The bodies of the chiefs are laid out side by side on a platform on top of the poles. Walls and ceiling enclose the bodies. At the base of the tomb a man crouches beside a fire.
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![[Execution of a prisoner in an Indigenous Brazilian village]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/48fc2213150aea8479bf707d205bc43ef7c1afae.jpg)
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![[Act XIV – Melibea and Calisto Embrace, Sosia and Tristan Stand Guard, and Lucrecia Waits at a Distance]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/bdd805353c3a72ba2c1b81fe022dfc890b3501dd.jpg)
