[Library on Lilliput] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Library on Lilliput]
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; library
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a personal library on Lilliput. Gulliver tells us that the only person on Lilliput with an extensive library is the Emperor, and even the very wealthy have only a small library, with most people not having any sort of library. Gulliver compares the small libraries of individual Lilliputians to a library that could be carried on a donkey’s back; thus, we see a donkey sitting by the base of the bookshelf. This image comes in the appendix to Gulliver’s travels to Lilliput, in which Gulliver critiques the Lilliputian education system. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20973
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20973_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Lilliput (Imaginary place); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; library