[a dying Houyhnhnm visits its friends] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a dying Houyhnhnm visits its friends]
Subject: Sedan chairs; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Funeral customs and rites; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see a dying Houyhnhnm travelling around visiting its friends before it dies. It travels in a sedan chair carried by yahoos. These chairs were also used when a Houyhnhnm was aging, ill or injured. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21461
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21461_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Sedan chairs; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Funeral customs and rites; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures