Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Imperial Apartment on Fire
Small figures rush through a palace courtyard beneath great bands of red and orange flame. Boats and dark architectural forms enclose the brilliant foreground. The facing caption identifies the fire in the empress’s apartment at Lilliput.
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Jean de Bosschere. "The Imperial Apartment on Fire" [editorial title]. 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 55. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0262-0045
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Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and BrobdingnagJonathan Swift; illustrated by Jean de BosschèreUndated editionMore from this book
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Jean de Bosschere. The Imperial Apartment on Fire. Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Scan leaf 55. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0262-0045