[a servant of the ruling Yahoo licks his feet] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a servant of the ruling Yahoo licks his feet]
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Political customs and rites; Kings and rulers; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Gulliver’s master explained various aspects of the Yahoos that lived in the Country of the Houyhnhnms. He explained that the Yahoos had one who was the ruler. This ruler had a servant whose job it was to lick the feet of the ruler, seen here, and to bring female yahoos to him. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21231
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21231_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Political customs and rites; Kings and rulers; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures