I set sail at six in the morning

Artist: Thomas Morten (1836-66)

Engraver: W.J.Linton

1865

Wood engraving

7½ x 5½ inches.

‘I set sail at six in the morning’, for Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, p.82

Morten shows Gulliver departing from the company of the little people of Lilliput at the end of the first part of Gulliver’s Travels.

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