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The Illustrations for Gulliver's Travels |
A study for Gulliver's Travels |
In 1947 a new edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels appeared. It was published by Crown Publishers and included an introduction by Jacques Barzun. It had twenty four original prints and one hundred and sixty drawings by my father. Here is a sampling. |
Mr. Lemuel Gulliver |
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The Voyage to Lilliput and Blefusco
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Gulliver swimming to shore
A Person of Quality
Gulliver's Watch
The King's Army
The
Candidates for great Employments,
The Empress
Gulliver
quenching the Fire
The Emperor of Blefuscu
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The Voyage to Brobdingnag |
Gulliver meets a Farmer
A Brobdignagian Cat
A Brobdignagian Baby
The Queen's Maids of Honor
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The Voyage to Laputa Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan |
The Grand Academy of Lagado
Geese
Politics
The Struldbruggs |
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The Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
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Gulliver meeting the Houyhnhnms
Yahoos
Top Yahoo
Houyhnhnm and Yahoo
Gulliver Explains European Politics
European Life
Gulliver Returning Home to England
If
the Europeans invaded the
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"Luis Quintanilla was a very fine artist with a special gift for seizing and enhancing by original illustrations the most significant moments in a literary work."
Jacques Barzun Sept. 25, 2000 |
In early January of 1948 he received a letter from Dudley Fitts. It is on Phillips Academy stationary and Fitts, at that time, was an instructor at Phillips up in Andover, Massachusetts. Fitts was a well known poet and one of the best translators of his time of classical Greek plays into English. He had received a copy of the Gulliver as a gift from his old friend the artist and replied, in Spanish, that not withstanding certain Andalucian priests they had once encountered he discovers himself to be "a believer this morning; and what has affected this unexpected transformation is your magnificent Gulliver which arrived not only at the beginning of the new year but also on the occasion of my beginning a new course here on Swift and his work. It is difficult to deny a presentiment. You have given me the gift of a fine omen, and how was it that you knew that at ten o'clock sharp this morning I would be standing before a class intoning pontifically?:
"Or is Quintanilla clairvoyant, or does God exist. Which do you prefer?
From Waiting at the Shore |
American Printmakers On-line Catalogue Raisonne Project: The Prints of Luis Quintanilla