THE KING OF BROBDINGNAG AND GULLIVER, Gillray, 1803
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| 6.THE KING OF BROBDINGNAG AND GULLIVER, Gillray, 1803. Published on June 26, 1803, this most famous of caricatures constitutes the first section of a diptych conceived by Gillray on the subject of Bonaparte/Gulliver, based on the novel by Jonathan Swift (1726). It is a way of using Napoleon's size, so treasured by caricaturists and lampoonists, and enlarging George III, sovereign of a kingdom of giants, Brobdingnag. The English text pronounced by the king literally says that Bonaparte is « one of the most pernicious and most harmful reptiles crawling on the face of this earth.» |