[An elderly man judges the correct interpretation of religion] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [An elderly man judges the correct interpretation of religion]
Subject: Politics; Religious Disputations; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lilliput; England; Blefuscu
Description: In this image we see an old man with a long beard wearing fancy robes. He appears to have tablets in each hand. The image comes when Gulliver discusses the differences in religious beliefs between Lilliput and Blefuscu which led to war. The man represents the former Emperor of Lilliput who outlawed the religious beliefs of Blefuscu. This is a thinly veiled reference to the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 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:21549
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21549_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Politics; Religious Disputations; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Gulliver's Travels