[Depiction of Lilliputian burial rites] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Depiction of Lilliputian burial rites]
Subject: Funeral Customs and Rites; Funeral Service; Burial in Literature; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lilliput; England
Description: In this image we see how the Lilliputians bury their dead. The deceased is buried head down because they believe that the world will eventually turn upside down and the dead will be resurrected, thus when this happens, they will be right side up. The burial is attended by a crowd of mourners. This image appears when Gulliver discusses the various traditions and practices of the Lilliputians. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21559
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21559_OBJ.png