[A Lilliputian orator addresses Gulliver] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Lilliputian orator addresses Gulliver]
Subject: Orators; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Lilliput; England
Description: Here a Lilliputian orator addresses Gulliver. Gulliver the describes to the reader the Lilliputian language and peoples. He describes the language as a combination of several languages Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and the Lingua Franca. Gulliver tells the reader that he could not understand the Lilliputians, nor could the Lilliputians understand him.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:21983
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_21983_OBJ.png