[A donkey] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A donkey]
Subject: Donkeys; satire; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see an image of a donkey. It appears when the Council of the Houyhnhnms discussed the possibility of exterminating the yahoos. One of the reasons for this was to correct the mistake of the Houyhnhnms ancestors, who failed to breed donkeys which were more hygienic and had better agility than the yahoos. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21459
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21459_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Donkeys; satire; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures