[A bookshelf from the Lilliputian library] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A bookshelf from the Lilliputian library]
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Library; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Place; Imaginary Creatures; Satire
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Lilliput
Description: Here we see a personal library on Lilliput. Gulliver tells us that the only person on Lilliput with an extensive library is the emperor, and even the very wealthy have only a small library, with most people not having any sort of library. Gulliver compares the small libraries of individual Lilliputians to a library that could be carried on a donkey’s back; thus, we see a donkey sitting by the base of the bookshelf. This image comes in the appendix to Gulliver’s travels to Lilliput, in which Gulliver critiques the Lilliputian education system. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Breviere (Illustrator);Francais (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21662
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21662_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Library; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Place; Imaginary Creatures; Satire