[Yahoos digging for gemstones] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Yahoos digging for gemstones]
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); satire; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see yahoos digging for gemstones. Gulliver’s master explains the relationships among the yahoos in the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver’s master says that the yahoos enjoy digging for various stones, which they would then fight over. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Verdeil (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21835
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_21835_OBJ.png