[a hanging incense burner with a depiction of virtue] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a hanging incense burner with a depiction of virtue]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a hanging incense burner with a depiction of virtue and humans. Virtue is represented by a woman, with a Houyhnhnm on her helmet. She holds a mirror up to a man. While the man is dressed like an upper class European, in the reflection of the mirror we see a yahoo from the Country of the Houyhnhnms. This represents Gulliver’s disdain for humans, feeling that all humans lack the virtue of the Houyhnhnms, and are made of vice. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21283
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21283_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Incense burners and containers; Virtue; fictional works; Fictitious characters; satire; Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters)