I rose in a fright

Artist: Thomas Morten (1836-66)

Engraver: W.J.Linton

1865

Wood engraving

7½ x 5½ inches.

Illustration for Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, p.100

This powerful design shows one of Gulliver’s encounters with the gigantic fauna of Brobdingnag.

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