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Alternative Title
Houyhnhnm
Description
A small grey ceramic horse figurine with black forelock, mane, tail, and hooves. Depicted lying on the ground and looking back over its right side with its left leg extended for balance (sternal recumbency). "Japan" marked on underside to indicate country of manufacture.
28. Houyhnhnm. In this case, representing that special bay horse which became the kindly master and patron of Gulliver, in the fourth book of Swift’s Travels of Lemuel Gulliver.
A gift from Henry Louis Mencken.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
6.5 x 3 x 3
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels; Satire
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 28, Houyhnhnm, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i028.jpg