Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Reapers above Gulliver in the Cornfield
Three enormous faces and a sickle loom above a dense stand of corn. A tiny Gulliver shelters among the stalks below. The caption identifies the men going to reap the field where the traveller lies, reversing the scale of the earlier Lilliput scenes.
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Jean de Bosschere. "The Reapers above Gulliver in the Cornfield" [editorial title]. In Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Jonathan Swift; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Lilliput and Brobdingnag voyages; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère; Dodd, Mead and William Heinemann, undated title., undated edition, Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann. Source scan leaf 89. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0262-0079
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Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and BrobdingnagJonathan Swift; illustrated by Jean de BosschèreUndated editionMore from this book
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Jean de Bosschere. The Reapers above Gulliver in the Cornfield. Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Scan leaf 89. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0262-0079