[The Empress and her ladies look out the window at the fire] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Empress and her ladies look out the window at the fire]
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: During Gulliver’s stay on Lilliput, a fire broke out in the Imperial Palace, in the Empresses' apartment. Gulliver put the fire out by urinating on it. Here we see the Empress and two of her maids looking out of a large palace window after the fire. The Empress is in the centre and can be distinguished from her maid and lady-in-waiting by her headpiece and clothing. The maid is on the left and the lady-in-waiting is on the right. Although the fire was in the Empress’s apartments, she chose not to return to those apartments after they had been refurbished given the manner in which Gulliver extinguished the fire. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21350
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21350_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: fire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary place)