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Title: [a yahoo eats a rat]
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Rats in literature; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a yahoo eating a rat. Gulliver’s master explains that many yahoos live in huts near the Houyhnhnms’ house, but the rest live in fields, where they forage for herbs and berries and hunt for rats and mice. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21238
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21238_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Rats in literature; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures