The Wasp — 1892 — page 122: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon depicts a figure labeled "Maurice Schmidt" as a tiny person being held up by large hands. The title references Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*, where Lilliputians were miniature people—suggesting Schmidt is insignificant or powerless despite holding what appears to be a toy bicycle or mechanical device. The exaggerated facial caricatures of the surrounding figures (likely politicians or public figures of the era) tower over him mockingly. The satire appears to ridicule Schmidt's grandiose pretensions or proposals as laughably small-scale compared to the actual power wielded by larger political figures around him. Without additional context about Schmidt's specific identity or the cartoon's publication date, the precise political situation remains unclear, but the message is clear: his importance is being minimized through visual metaphor.