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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.

• 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 ...

Just let us assume, that Holiday only wanted to draw a rock in his illustration. And also let us assume, that this rock would not be related to the besom broom in Gheeraert's etching. When the illustration was finished, Holiday may have lookt at his ilustration asking, how his work will be perceived by Lewis Carroll and later by the readers of the Hunting of the Snark. What did Holiday see looking at his own work?

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: Segment in mirror view from the illustration by Henry Holiday to The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, right: Segment from the Etching The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder