[a dining table from Lilliput] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a dining table from Lilliput]
Subject: Dinners and dining in literature; Lilliput (Imaginary place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a Lilliputian dining table. There are various fruits and vegetables on the table, and a painting of two cherubs on the wall, next to a mirror. Steam emerges from one of the bottles along the right hand side. We also see a face in the bottom right corner. This image appears in the appendix to Gulliver’s travels in Lilliput. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20975
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20975_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Dinners and dining in literature; Lilliput (Imaginary place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures