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- What is this?
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- Here Holiday quoted from another source too.
- The ink has a different source.
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Le petit bleu qui trouble
Formerly, the title was "Paradise Snarked & Marked". But Jean-Michel Frodon's comment (the link doesn't work anymore) was so much better! (He also explained quite well, what this image is about.)
The comparison shows illustrations by Gustave Doré (to John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1866) and by Henry Holiday (to The Hunting of the Snark, 1876).
High resolution: 4440 x 3000. There also is an image sans bleu.
From The Hunting of the Snark, Fit the 5th, The Beaver's Lesson:
301 They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with
care;
302 They pursued it with forks and hope;
303 They threatened its life with a railway-share;
304 They charmed it with smiles and soap.
305 Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan
306 For making a separate sally;
307 And had fixed on a spot unfrequented by man,
308 A dismal and desolate valley.
309 But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred:
310 It had chosen the very same place:
311 Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,
312 The disgust that appeared in his face.
313 Each thought he was thinking of nothing but
"Snark"
314 And the glorious work of the day;
315 And each tried to pretend that he did not remark
316 That the other was going that way.
317 But the valley grew narrow and narrower still,
318 And the evening got darker and colder,
319 Till (merely from nervousness, not from goodwill)
320 They marched along shoulder to
shoulder.
The two images also walk along well together. The comparison is a good example for how Holiday in many of his references to other images strengthened the link between an illustration and the pictures from which he quoted graphical elements: The resemblance of the 6 matching patterns (highlighted using notes 1 to 6) may be more or less disputable for each single match, but the topological relation between the elements quoted (in a subtle and yet noticeable manner) by Holiday is similar in both pictures.
I made this comparison in 2009 based on original 19th century prints.
Comments and faves
Lynn Morag (38 months ago | reply)
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing - but please remember we need a quote for Literary Reference in Pictures. Could you add one or remove the image from the group pool please?
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Seen in Literary Reference in Pictures: post one, comment one (or two!) (?)
Bonnetmaker (38 months ago | reply)
In the beginning the friendship between the Butcher and the Beaver did not really get a good start:
But after they had do develop a working relationship (The Beaver's Lesson), they even became friends. So I added that part of the poem to the description of the Doré-Holiday comparison.
Lynn Morag (38 months ago | reply)
Fantastic! Thank you!
Bonnetmaker (27 months ago | reply)
artsciencefactory.fr/2011/02/04/par-gustave-d ore-et-par-h... (comment in French)
jambus85 added this photo to his favorites. (27 months ago)
Bonnetmaker (27 months ago | reply)
• www.saatchionline.com/art/view/artist/265187/ art/115724
• www.saatchionline.com/goetzkluge
Bonnetmaker (25 months ago | reply)
Bandersnatch, LCS UK, April 2011, p.19:
• goetzkluge.artsciencefactory.fr/2011/02/10/do reholiday/
• artsciencefactory.fr/2011.02.04/par-gustave-d ore-et-par-h...
Actually, since I sent my message to the Bandersnatch (the newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society, London, UK), the "painstaking work" almost stopped. (The growth of text didn't.) I think, that after two years of Snark hunting, I marked enough trees in the Snark section of the Carrollian universe and need a break. There still are some open questions, but I leave them (and possible further findings) to others. Furthermore, somebody else now continues the painstaking work to dig deeper into the history of Henry Holiday' s work of graphically interpreting and commenting Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
reptilelingerie added this photo to his favorites. (22 months ago)
Bonnetmaker (16 months ago | reply)
As I didn't search too much since April 2012, so there are not too many new findings. This is the latest one:
There quite a few open questions even with the findings which I consider to be "safe". But there also are findings, which I am not sure of. Therefore I am offering a set for potential co-hunters to check on the more dubious comparisons and assumptions: www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/sets/721576 25204596785/...
Steve Taylor (Photography) added this photo to his favorites. (16 months ago)
Steve Taylor (Photography) (16 months ago | reply)
Wonderful work
Bonnetmaker (15 months ago | reply)
www.flickr.com/photos/dickinsonlibrary/sets/7 215762924533...
The 4848x6066 scan of my own print is here: www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/5211358354/ in/set-72157...
VRCS, flickerl, 小号看天下, and kataoka robo added this photo to their favorites.
Bonnetmaker (4 months ago | reply)
Bonnetmaker (4 months ago | reply)
The hunt is not over yet:
