[a European grooms a horse] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a European grooms a horse]
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); horses; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary places
Period: 1850-1900;
Description: Here we see a human grooming a horse in a stable. 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, including brushing the horse. The same image appears in both the 1839 and 1843 Krabbe editions.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21449
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1870 Stuttgart Grandville; 1870 Stuttgart Grandville
Image: mta_21449_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); horses; fictional works; Fictitious characters; imaginary places; imaginary places