[Lilliputians with large shoes] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Lilliputians with large shoes]
Subject: Satire; Lilliput (Imaginary Place); Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Lilliput; Mildendo; England
Description: Here we see Lilliputians next to large shoes. This image appears at the beginning of Chapter Four, in which Gulliver visits the city of Mildendo. The Lilliputians were warned of Gulliver’s arrival in the city and told to go inside to stay out of Gulliver’s way. One of the Lilliputians holds a banner, representing this warning. On the banner we see the letter T, as the first word of the chapter is the.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:21991
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_21991_OBJ.png