[A young Lilliputian Girl looks into a mirror] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A young Lilliputian Girl looks into a mirror]
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary place); Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; fictional works; imaginary places
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a young Lilliputian girl looking into a mirror. The upper-class Lilliputian children are sent to boarding school where they are taught domestic skills. The girl looks into a round mirror sitting on a table with a cloth draped over the back of the mirror and the table. A chair with clothes on it is behind the girl. Her arms are clasped behind her back and she is holding something resembling a handheld mirror. This image comes when Gulliver describes the education system in Lilliput in the sixth chapter in which Gulliver discusses the values and traditions of the Lilliputians. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20856
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20856_OBJ.png