[A Lilliputian woman in a sedan chair] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Lilliputian woman in a sedan chair]
Subject: Sedan Chairs; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Gulliver's Travels
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lilliput; England
Description: In this image we see a Lilliputian seated in a sedan chair – a covered chair used in the Georgian era as a form of transportation. The sedan chair was carried by either two or four men around town. In this image, only the woman, wearing a long gown, who owns it is seen; the men who carried the chair are not shown. It is richly decorated, and the letter A is along the top. This is because it is the first letter of the word auch, which is the first word of the chapter. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Breviere (Illustrator); Francais (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21569
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1843 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_21569_OBJ.png