[deceased horses on a beach] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [deceased horses on a beach]
Subject: horses; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; satire
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see two dead horses lying on a beach. 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. Gulliver tells his master that horses were beloved by humans until they became sick of injured and could no longer work. Then, they would be sold to do menial work until they died, at which point their skins were stripped and sold. One of the horses is only a skeleton, implying his skin was sold. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Piaud (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21800
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_21800_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: horses; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures; satire