[a Lilliputian woman seated in a sedan chair] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a Lilliputian woman seated in a sedan chair]
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary place); Sedan chairs; imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see a Lilliputian seated in a sedan chair – a covered chair used in the Georgian era as a form of transportation. The sedan chair was carried by either two or four men around town. In this image, only the woman, wearing a long gown, who owns it is seen; the men who carried the chair are not shown. It is richly decorated, and the letter A is along the top. This is because it is the first letter of the word auch, which is the first word of the chapter. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20861
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20861_OBJ.png