[Gulliver extinguishes a fire in the Imperial Palace on Lilliput] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Gulliver extinguishes a fire in the Imperial Palace on Lilliput]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lilliput; England
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 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Breviere (Illustrator);Francais (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21555
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21555_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Fire; Castles; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels