[Gulliver puts out the fire in the Royal Palace on Lilliput] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver puts out the fire in the Royal Palace on Lilliput]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image Gulliver puts out a fire in the Empress’s apartments on Lilliput. He does this by urinating on the fire. Gulliver stands in the centre of the palace, and the fire is coming from the wing closest to the viewer. Several Lilliputians work to put out the fire with some spraying hoses and climbing ladders to get into the palace. In the foreground we see other Lilliputians trying to rescue some of the precious goods from the burning Palace. Gulliver successfully put out the fire, however this incident was one of the reasons later used by the Lilliputians to charge Gulliver for treason and forcing him to leave Lilliput after nine months. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Breviere (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20847
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20847_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; castles in literature; fire