[a young Houyhnhnm] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a young Houyhnhnm]
Subject: Children; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here we see a child of the Houyhnhnms. Every four years a representative council of the Houyhnhnms meets in a large plain about twenty miles from the house where Gulliver was staying. They discuss the conditions of the different districts of the country. One of the issues discussed at these meetings are the regulations of children. This includes their redistribution between parents. For example, if one couple had two boys, and another had two girls, then the couples would switch one child, so each couple had one boy and one girl. Another example is when a child died, if the mother could no longer bear children, then another couple in the community will have a child to replace the deceased. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Sears (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21243
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21243_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Children; Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures