Plate I. Part I. Page I · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Plate I. Part I. Page I
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Voyages; Fictional Works; Imaginary Places; Gulliver
Period: 1700-1750;
Geographic: not specified; Blefuscu; Lilliput; England
Description: A map of depicting the fictional lands of Lilliput and Blefuscu that Gulliver visited in the first part of the story. Under the fictional lands is written Discovered, AD 1699. The map also depicts the lands of Sumatra and Dimen’s Land. Two ships – likely the man-of-war type ships which were popular in the eighteenth century and are mentioned in the text – are shown. The same map is featured in several other editions of the text, including those in other languages.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Cartographer)
Type: Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:21924
Language: eng
Source Name: Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World
Parent Collection: 1747 London Bathurst
Image: mta_21924_OBJ.png