I Took Out My Pocket-Perspective

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Gulliver stands at the edge of a cliff, looking with a telescope at a city hovering in the sky

I took out my pocket-perspective, and could plainly discover numbers of people moving up and down the sides.

Artist

Name:: Gavarni, Paul
Dates:: 1804-1866
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Metal Engraving
Engraver:: Willmann, Édouard
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Voyages de Gulliver (4th edition)
Author:: Swift, Jonathan
Publisher:: Paris: Laplace, Sanchez et Cie., n.d. (after 1862)
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Gulliver stands at the edge of a cliff in a mountainous landscape and looks with a telescope at a circular city hovering in the sky high up above him.
The caption reads in the French edition: Très étonné de ce phénomène, je m’armai de mon télescope.

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