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Title: [a horseshoe]
Subject: Horseshoes; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; satire; horses
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a horseshoe. The Houyhnhnms asks about the horses in Europe and how they live. Gulliver explains that humans or yahoos govern the country and care for the horses or Houyhnhnms, and how humans use their horses. Gulliver explained how horseshoes were made of iron and were put on the bottom of the horses’ feet to protect them from the rough roads. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21808
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21808_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Horseshoes; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; satire; horses