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Title: des Sporns
Subject: Spurs; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; satire
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a spur on the back of a boot. 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, including how humans use the spurs on the back of boots to control horses. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21806
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_21806_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Spurs; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; satire