[common horses working pulling a cart] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [common horses working pulling a cart]
Subject: horses; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; satire; Carriages and carts in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a common horse pulling a cart and getting whipped. 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. In opposition to the well-kept horses used to pull carriages that Gulliver explained earlier, Gulliver goes on to say that common horses were often treated poorly, as they were whipped and forced to do labour and were fed low quality foods. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21801
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_21801_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: horses; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; satire; Carriages and carts in literature