En diciembre de 1726 William Hogarth publicó este grabado titulado: The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver, reflejo de la popularidad del libro Los viajes de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift, publicado dos meses antes. El enorme trasero de Gulliver (Inglaterra) está recibiendo un enema con una gran jeringa que manejan los liliputienses (un ministro Whig y la Iglesia), mientras el Primer Ministro inglés Sir Robert Walpole supervisa la acción.

En palabras de John Sena:
"Gulliver and the English, according to Hogarth, have been grossly exploited, basely abused, and subjected to unspeakable indignities by their leaders. In their childlike innocence and respect for authority, Gulliver and the English have failed to recognize their strength or their ability to rebel against Britain's petty tyrants. Hogarth has encouraged us, then, to approach the text of Gulliver's Travels with a specific partisan point of view, a preconceived notion of what we shall find and how we should interpret the events described".

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REFERENCIAS:

GEORGE, M. Dorothy, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', Londres, vol. IV, 1935.
SENA, John F., "'Gulliver's Travells' and the Genre of the Iliustrated Book", en: SMITH, Frederik N. (Ed.), The Genres of Gulliver's Travels, University of Delaware Press, 1990, esp. pp. 106-108, lam. 1.

En internet: http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2011/05/rump_ghosts.html
Otro ejemplar en el Metropolitan Museum of Art (Foto 2): http://sr.teatroengalicia.es/2s http://sr.teatroengalicia.es/2r
Ejemplar del British Museum: http://sr.teatroengalicia.es/2s