[horses pulling a carriage] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [horses pulling a carriage]
Subject: Carriages and carts in literature; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); horses
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see two horses pulling a carriage. 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. Gulliver tells his master that the horses in Europe were used for their strength and speed to pull carriages and chariots, racing, and travelling. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21188
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21188_OBJ.png