Bonnetmaker
posted a photo:
"While I concede Tufail 's thesis (2003) that Holiday received his instructions from Carroll and created his illustrations to reflect Carroll's cryptic messages and allusions, I contend that the interpretations given to the words we know so well by so many illustrators over a period in excess of 130 years continue to keep the Snark alive. Furthermore, it is my personal belief that Holiday managed to slip in a few interpretations of his own even though Carroll approved of the end result."
(Doug Howick: The Hiihijig of the Bijtcheb, Knight Letter #28, Summer 2009)
The comparison shows
Henry Holiday
's
illustration
(1876) to the front cover of Lewis Carroll's
The Hunting of the Snark
compared to the
Ditchley Portrait
(a gift from
Sir Henry Lee
to Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1592) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.
Watch the sail of the ship and the queen's "sail".
2011-12-03: 4735×3740