[the meeting of the Houyhnhnms] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [the meeting of the Houyhnhnms]
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); City councils; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: 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. This includes anything that a district is lacking, including hay or oats, as well as the regulation of children. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21242
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21242_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Houyhnhnms (Fictitious Characters); City councils; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures