[A vehicle for the Houyhnhnms pulled by yahoos] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A vehicle for the Houyhnhnms pulled by yahoos]
Subject: Yahoos (Fictitious Characters); Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; satire
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a vehicle similar to a sleigh drawn by four yahoos. A Houyhnhnm who injured his hoof sits on the sleigh, as it arrives to the house where Gulliver is staying. The sleigh is greeted by another Houyhnhnm, while another takes the yahoos to the stables to be fed. This scene turns the world upside down, as it is now humans who pull the sleighs and the horses riding in it, rather that the reverse. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator); Daligne Sculpt (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21157
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21157_OBJ.png