[a donkey] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a donkey]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see an image of a donkey. It appears when the Council of the Houyhnhnms discussed the possibility of exterminating the yahoos. One of the reasons for this was to correct the mistake of the Houyhnhnms ancestors, who failed to breed donkeys which were more hygienic and had better agility than the yahoos. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21246
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21246_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Donkeys; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; satire