[Cracked eggs depicting wars of religion] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Cracked eggs depicting wars of religion]
Subject: Religious disputations; Religion and politics; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary place)
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: In this image we see the two types of eggs at war with each other. Those on the left are cracked on the top, while those on the right have been cracked in the middle. This difference as to the correct way to crack an egg was the reason for the tensions between Lilliput and Blefuscu. This is a thinly veiled reference to the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where Swift insinuates that the “correct” religious beliefs – like the correct way to crack an egg – is a personal decision, and not one worth going to war over. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21345
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21345_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Religious disputations; Religion and politics; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary place)