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Title: des Sattels
Subject: horses; Western saddles; satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a saddle on a horse’s back. 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, and how humans use their horses, including how humans use saddles on horses. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21804
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21804_OBJ.png