Weeds turned Horses

(1) Henry Holiday: "The Vanishing"
Illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), lower half


(2) John Martin: "The Bard" (detail)
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ca. 1817

Yale Center for British Art

Based on a Thomas Gray poem, inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard.