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Post by GoetzKluge on Jul 10, 2012 18:02:49 GMT -5
The Ditchley Portrait I found in 2010 thanks to John Tufail's Illuminated Snark: As Henry Holiday frequently quoted from works of father&son Gheeraerts, John Tufail's Illuminated Snark (2004) gave me the idea to search for a Gheeraerts painting in which a map is shown. John reckoned, that the clouds in Holiday's front cover illustration may be part of a map. John's assumption then drew my attention to the Ditchley portrait. Thanks to John and Google and Wikipedia! The Allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610) of Queen Elizabeth I at Old Age with allegory of Death and Father Time shown below I found after selecting paintings of Queen Elizabeth I drawn in the 16th and early 17th century:
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Post by GoetzKluge on May 16, 2013 10:07:31 GMT -5
... Ditchley Portrait ... ... Allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610) of Queen Elizabeth I at Old Age ...
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Post by snarkastic on Dec 12, 2013 14:22:45 GMT -5
Perhaps the Boojum is some kind of personal demon/s individual to each of us. The blank map, it seems to me, is an invitation to populate it with our own landscapes and journeys through life. At some point on that journey, we will all encounter a demon that we need to face up to and conquer.
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Post by GoetzKluge on Dec 12, 2013 16:44:01 GMT -5
Perhaps the Boojum is some kind of personal demon/s individual to each of us. ... Could be. And it has ancestors. Welcome Goetz
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Post by GoetzKluge on May 1, 2015 5:44:15 GMT -5
Perhaps the Boojum is some kind of personal demon/s individual to each of us. The blank map, it seems to me, is an invitation to populate it with our own landscapes and journeys through life. At some point on that journey, we will all encounter a demon that we need to face up to and conquer. By the way: In Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark the title page says: "With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday". But there are ten illustrations. One possible explanation: The Ocean-Chart in is not necessarily made by Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain. This is a typographical illustration. In the Knight Letter #87, Doug Howick assumes, that Lewis Carroll arranged this chart. I think that the map has been made by Carroll's publisher, that is, by a typesetter.
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