Art, Symbol & Imagination
Gulliver above the City of Lilliput
Original caption: Gulliver
A towering traveller in a green coat stands amid brightly coloured domes and small houses. Tiny figures occupy the ground and objects around his hands. De Bosschère uses the difference in scale to introduce Gulliver’s arrival among the people of Lilliput.
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Jean de Bosschère. "Gulliver above the City of Lilliput" [source caption]. In Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Jonathan Swift; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Lilliput and Brobdingnag voyages; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère; Dodd, Mead and William Heinemann, undated title., undated edition, Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann. Source scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bosschere-gulliver-frontispiece
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Jean de Bosschère. Gulliver above the City of Lilliput. Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bosschere-gulliver-frontispiece