[a dying Houyhnhnm travels in a sedan chair] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a dying Houyhnhnm travels in a sedan chair]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a dying Houyhnhnm travelling around visiting its friends before it dies. It travels in a sedan chair carried by yahoos. These chairs were also used when a Houyhnhnm was aging, ill or injured. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21859
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_21859_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); Sedan chairs; Burial in literature; Funeral customs and rites; Funeral service; satire; imaginary creatures; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; fictional works