Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: 'His Majesty presents him with fifty purses of two hundred Spruggs a-piece together with his picture at full-length'
Rex Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1930
Materials
Print on paper, in an acid free mount and glazed gilt frame.
Measurements
267 x 202 mm
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1175540.3
Summary
Print, engraving, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: 'His Majesty presents him with fifty purses of two hundred Spruggs a-piece together with his picture at full-length' by Rex (Reginald) John Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944) . One of six engravings from a special limited edition of 'Gulliver's Travels' printed by Cresset Press 1930 Within a classical arch surmounted by a broken pediment Gulliver kneels before the King of Lilliput, who stands on a high canopied dais, with a Palladian stairway curving to the right and left of the title inscription, engraving on paper, gilt frame, moulded with decorated filet.
Makers and roles
Rex Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944) , artist Cresset Press, printer