From Doré's Root to Holiday's Rat

Segments from illustrations
[left]: by Gustave Doré (to John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1866) and
[right]: by Henry Holiday (to The Hunting of the Snark, 1876) .

Here Henry Holiday played with zoomorphism and turned what could be parts of a root into a (naughty) winged rat.

i am not sure whether Doré's hatching of the "nose" and the "paw" is part of a joke already by Doré in that otherwise quite hellish scenario.

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Götz Kluge ^club

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Source:

Doré (1863), Holiday (1876), Doré (1866)

More sources for the mouse:

10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

Götz Kluge ^club

www.doylenewyork.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=13BP04+++553+&refno=++953647&image=0

"But I see no fun in he little creature pouring out ink"
(C. L. Dodgson in a letter to Henry Holiday)

Luckily, the little creature stayed in the illustration.

9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.

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Photos of Götz Kluge Photos of Götz Kluge

Snark Gallery Snark Gallery

Gustave Doré Gustave Doré

The Hunting of the Snark The Hunting of the Snark

The Hunting of the Snark The Hunting of the Snark

WAYS of seeing / MANIERES DE VOIR WAYS of seeing / MANIERES DE VOIR

Art is Art Art is Art

Pattern Recognition - the Adventure of Perception Pattern Recognition - the Adventure of Perception

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