Download/Print Selected Image
Copy Caption to clipboard
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver, 1803
- Title:
- The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver
- Date:
- 1803
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: , Plate: , Image:
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "'My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable | panegyric upon yourself and and Country, but from what I can | gather from your own relation & the answers I have with | much pains wringed and 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.'"; lower center: "The King of Brobdingnag, and Gulliver. | - Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag."; lettered below image, lower center: "Pubd. June 26th, 1803. by H. Humphrey 27 St Jamess Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1998.14.981
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | caricatures | satire
- Associated People:
- Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:69913
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.