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

Title: [a knife used to castrate male horses]
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 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21198
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21198_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); horses; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures