[Wars of religion depicted through the correct way to crack an egg on Lilliput] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Wars of religion depicted through the correct way to crack an egg on Lilliput]
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary place); imaginary places; fictional works; imaginary creatures; Fictitious characters; Religious disputations; Religion in literature; Religion and politics
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In this image we see the two types of eggs at war with each other. Those on the left are cracked on the top, while those on the right have been cracked in the middle. This difference as to the correct way to crack an egg was the reason for the tensions between Lilliput and Blefuscu. This is a thinly veiled reference to the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where Swift insinuates that the correct religious beliefs – like the correct way to crack an egg – is a personal decision, and not one worth going to war over. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20842
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekkant Lander
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20842_OBJ.png