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1. The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.06.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III, half length, stands in profile to the left, a holding a tiny Napoleon on the palm of his right hand, and inspecting him through a spy-glass. He says: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable \ "panegyric upon Yourself and Country, but from what I can \ "gather from your own relation & the answers I have with \ "much pains wringed & extorted from you, I cannot but con- \ "-clude you to be one of the most pernicious, little - odious \ "-reptiles, that nature ever suffer'd to crawl upon the surface of the Earth." He wears military uniform with a bag-wig. The only background is a dark cloud-like shadow across the lower part of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Artist identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1802.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 26th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adaptations, parodies, etc, Telescopes, Military uniforms, British, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].
