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Post by GoetzKluge on Jul 19, 2014 3:55:21 GMT -5
... Holiday's Butcher in The Beaver's Lesson and Anne Hale, Mrs Hoskins by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (1629) ...
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Post by GoetzKluge on Aug 31, 2014 16:55:22 GMT -5
Preparing John Martin's painting for comparison: Happy New Year to all curious&curiouser Carrollians!And special thanks to John Tufail and Mahendra Singh for their help and encouragement. John Martin and Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder were among the artists who inspired Henry Holiday's illustration to The Vanishing. In case of The Beaver's Lesson you find quotes from an illustration by Gustave Doré. But also John Martin may have been cited by Holiday (in parallel to Carroll's allusions to Thomas Gray). [main image]: John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), contrast enhanced & (most of) color removed [inset]: Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, detail Best regards, Götz www.snrk.de"Only those questions that are in principle undecidable, we can decide." (Heinz von Foerster: Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics, 1990-10-04, Système et thérapie familiale, Paris)
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Post by GoetzKluge on Oct 30, 2014 1:42:02 GMT -5
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Post by GoetzKluge on Nov 16, 2014 12:25:00 GMT -5
In an early draft to the image The Crew on Deck, the Bellman had a different face than the one which the Bellman had in the final illustration. Henry Holiday moved that round faced character to the illustration The Barrister's Dream and gave the Bellman a "Darwinian" face.
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Post by GoetzKluge on Dec 18, 2014 1:57:02 GMT -5
{left}: Segment from an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Holiday may have had a reason to place that little white spot (you find it in the upper right corner of the right match indicator) into the illustration. {right, mirror view}: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark an alledged error, which is not an error, had been removed. However, the removed white spot had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (reflection from a glass).
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Post by GoetzKluge on Mar 1, 2015 7:40:37 GMT -5
(on The Barrister's Dream) A pig is on trial. Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday may have been inspired by such a trial when working on The Barrister's Dream in The Hunting of the Snark. See also: Illustration from Book of Days depicting a sow and her piglets being tried for the murder of a child. The trial allegedly in Levagny took place in 1457, the mother being found guilty and the piglets acquitted.
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