[a dying Houyhnhnm travels in a sedan chair] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a dying Houyhnhnm travels in a sedan chair]
Subject: Sedan chairs; Funeral customs and rites; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
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 the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21255
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21255_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Sedan chairs; Funeral customs and rites; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures