[A knife used to castrate male horses] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A knife used to castrate male horses]
Subject: horses; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a knife used to castrate male horses and make them tamer. Gulliver’s master was shocked that humans would ride horses, so Gulliver explained how horses were trained from a young age and bred for human use. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21809
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_21809_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: horses; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places