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Snark

Left: Henry Holiday's depiction of the Baker's uncle (in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876) with some of the Baker's 42 boxes outside of the window.
Right top: John Everett Milais: Christ in the House of his Parents (aka The Carpenter's Shop, 1850, Pre-Raphaelite) with a flock of sheep outside of the window symbolizing the the laity).
Right bottom: Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of Reformation (mirrored view, 16^th century) with a violent scene of the reformation depicted outside of the window. Thomas Cranmer is second from left under the window.

I think, Millais quoted from the 16^th century painting: The red flower in Millais' window corresponds to a mutilated body visible through window in the 16^th century painting. And Holiday (who perhaps understood Millais' quotes) quoted from Millais' painting as well as from the 16^th century painting.

I assume, that Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's The Hunting of the Snark is about belief and legitimate disputes (Snark) as well as about violent fanaticism (Boojum), especially with regard to the history of Anglicanism.

Articles for Snarkhunting:

• The Hunting of the Snark
• Lewis Carroll
• Henry Holiday (Holiday's depiction of the Bonnet maker)
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• The Banker's Fate
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder
• John Everett Millais
• Gustave Doré
• Alfred Parsons (artist): Compare Parsons' depiction of Charles Darwin's study to Henry Holiday's illustration of the Baker's visit to his uncle.
• Charles Darwin, the HMS Beagle (compared to the ship of the Snark hunting crew) and the vivisection debate (the Beaver's "wrong" lace-making perhaps refers to a memo by Charles Darwin how to use lace-needles together with a microscope for dissection)
• Thomas Cranmer (one of the Baker's personalities; the Baker's 42 boxes perhaps represent Cranmer's 42 Articles)
• Henry George Liddell (Holiday's depiction of the Billiard marker)
• Allegory: Father Time (Holiday's depiction of the Bellman on the front cover)
• Allegories: Religion and Liberty, Care and Hope

Questions

• With regard to Image:DarwinHunting480.jpg, was it possible, that Carroll and/or Holiday had access to Darwin's famous "I think"-sketch of the evolutionary tree already before Darwin's notebook was made available to a wider public? (I got contradicting answers from Darwin specialists.)

Literature

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheHuntingOfTheSnark/links/Admin_s_Bookmarks_001263500322/Literature_001264239057/
• http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R14QBHDGJKTXYO/

Sub pages

Four selected images

Other articles

• Entropy
• Window

Goetz Kluge, 2010-03-21