Frontispiece

Artist: Thomas Morten (1836-66)

Engraver: W. J. Linton

1865

Wood engraving

7½ x 5½ inches.

Illustration for Swift’sGulliver’s Travels, pictorial frontispiece.

This opening image, which gives a sharp sense of the disparity in size between the tiny Lilliputians and the colossus standing over them.

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