[common horses working pulling a cart] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [common horses working pulling a cart]
Subject: Carriages and carts in literature; horses; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a common horse pulling a cart and getting whipped. 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. In opposition to the well-kept horses used to pull carriages that Gulliver explained earlier, Gulliver goes on to say that common horses were often treated poorly, as they were whipped and forced to do labour and were fed low quality foods. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21190
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21190_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Carriages and carts in literature; horses; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures