Lemuel Gulliver
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Lemuel Gulliver is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.
The first edition of Gulliver's Travels claimed that Lemuel Gulliver was its author, and contained a fictitious portrait of Lemuel Gulliver.
Gulliver captured by the Lilliputians (illustration by J.J. Grandville).
Captain Gulliver, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s).
Lemuel Gulliver meets the King of Brobdingnag (1803), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput
Lemuel Gulliver
…Lemuel Gulliver () is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire c. 1661, where his father had a small estate; the Gulliver…
Portrait by Charles Jervas, 1710
The house in which Swift was born; 1865 illustration
Jonathan Swift in 1682, by Thomas Pooley. The artist had married into the Swift family.
Jonathan Swift (shown without wig) by Rupert Barber, 1745, National Portrait Gallery, London