Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines
Jonathan Swift, illustrated by J.J. Grandville
Paris: H. Fournier aȋné
1838
Vanderbilt University Special Collections
Grandville reacted to the French government re-installation of censorship and betrayal of the free press, joining the tradition of Jacques Callot (from Nancy also) and his contemporary satirist Honoré Daumier. Grandville was refered to as the King of Caricature and the French Hogarth. By 1835, with the censorship laws reinstated, more arrests, and government shut downs of the journals, Grandville looked toward book illustration and a more universal message about political and social freedoms.
He illustrated the French editions of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe, Guilliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes with great success.