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Lewis Carroll by Henry Holiday (carefully engraved by Joseph Swain) and by Lewis Carroll (photo)
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Lewis Carroll by Henry Holiday (carefully engraved by Joseph Swain) and by Lewis Carroll (photo)

It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have devined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple.
(Henry Holiday on Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", January 29th, 1898)

Mind your own mind.
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Mind your own mind.
Yellow Lines and Dots on a Snark Illustration by Henry Holiday.
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Yellow Lines and Dots on a Snark Illustration by Henry Holiday.
The image on the right side of course is nonsense.



The image on the left side (besides being nonsense too) is more a selection of patterns than a comparison. (As for the comparison part: Here Gheeraersts illustration may have been a source of shapes as well as of symbols):

  • top left: Segment of an illustration by Henry Holiday toThe Landing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
  • top right: Segment of an illustration by Henry Holiday to The Beaver's Lesson...
  • middle: Segment of an illustration by Henry Holiday to The Vanishing ...
  • bottom left: Lower left corner of The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1567)
  • bottom right: Lower right corner ...


left: Illustration by Henry Holiday to The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876),right: Etching The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1567)
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left: Illustration by Henry Holiday to The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876),
right: Etching The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1567)
Detail: Priest in the Mouth left: Segments in mirror view from the illustration by Henry Holiday to The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark,right: Segments from the Etching The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. All segments have been low pass filtered in order to focus on the larger structures.
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Detail: Priest in the Mouth
 
left: Segments in mirror view from the illustration by Henry Holiday to The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark,
right: Segments from the Etching The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.
 
All segments have been low pass filtered in order to focus on the larger structures.
Holiday's illustration to The Vanishing (in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark) compard to the etching The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.
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Illustration (1866) by Gustave Doré to John Milton's Paradise Lost compared with an illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to the chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
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Illustration (1866) by Gustave Doré to John Milton's Paradise Lost compared with an illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to the chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
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