[yahoos pull a vehicle for the Houyhnhnms] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [yahoos pull a vehicle for the Houyhnhnms]
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a vehicle similar to a sleigh drawn by four yahoos. A Houyhnhnm who injured his hoof sits on the sleigh, as it arrives to the house where Gulliver is staying. The sleigh is greeted by another Houyhnhnm, while another takes the yahoos to the stables to be fed. This scene turns the world upside down, as it is now humans who pull the sleighs and the horses riding in it, rather that the reverse. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator);Daligne Sculpt (Illustrator); Grandville (Illustrator); Daligne Sculpt (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21789
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_21789_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures