The Broker's and the Monk's Nose
The Broker's and the Monk's Nose (with a little he…
Two Noses
So great was his fright that his waistcoat turned…
The Bankers Fate
Two Bone Players
IT WAS A BOOJUM
Herbs & Horses
White Spot
The Billiard marker
Carroll's Barrister's Dream
Dream Snarks
Paradise Lost and the Beaver's Lesson
The Banker and The Bonnetmaker
Snarking or Gnashing
Fun with Allusions
Grünewald and Holiday
Easter Greeting
Alice and the Cheshire Cat
Recycled Bellman Draft
Waistcoat Poetry
Heads by Henry Holiday and Marcus Gheeraerts the E…
The removed "error" had a purpose
The Flaw was no Flaw
Mary's and the Baker's Kerchiefs
The Expression of Emotions
Thomas Cranmer's Burning
Seeing Letters, Skulls and Faces
Schnarkverschlimmbesserung
h80 - The Vanishing
h50 - Beavers Lesson
h30 - The Baker's Uncle
h70 - The Banker's Fate
h60 - Snark Court
h10 - The Landing
h11 - The Snark Hunting Party
h20 - BellmansMap
Surrounded by Monsters
Thomas Cranmer's Boojum (with inset)
Thomas Cranmer's Boojum
The Vanishing of Thomas Cranmer
«L.C. forgot that "the Snark" is a tragedy and [sh…
The Baker's 42 Boxes and Iconoclasm
Carroll on the Rocks
Nose is a Nose is a Nose
Burning the Baker
Holiday - Millais - Anonymous - Galle; detail
Bellman & Bard after retinex filtering
Bellman & Bard after retinex filtering
Bellman & Bard
Bellman & Bard
The Butcher & the young Raleigh (details)
Bellmen on the Rocks
Bellmen
Adriano Orefice: La cerca dello Squallo
The Bellman and Charles Darwin
Mad Tea-Party
Nosemorph
Thomas Cranmer's Burning
Lacing Pillow
TruthProof
The Boojum sitting on some of the 42 boxes
IT WAS A BOOJUM (bw)
The Bellman and Sir Henry Lee (no marks)
Bankersnatched by the Bandersnatch
Holiday - Millais- Anonymous - Galle, detail
6 Sources to the Beaver's Lesson
The Baker's 42 Boxes
The Carpenter and Ahasuerus
From Doré's Root to Holiday's Rat
42 Boxes meet the Iconoclasts
Thumb & Lappet
Hidden Carrol
Thomas Cramer's hand?
"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, I sha…
IT WAS A BOOJUM
While he rattled a couple of bones
While he rattled a couple of bones
Crossing the Line
Tree of Life
The Bellman and Sir Henry Lee
Star and Tail
William III, Religion and Liberty, Care and Hope
Kerchiefs and other shapes
Holiday - Millais - Anonymous - Galle
From Doré's Root to Holiday's Rat
42 Boxes, Sheep, Iconoclasm
Thomas Cranmer's 42 Boxes
The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
An Expedition Team
Holiday - Millais - Anonymous - Galle
Holiday - Millais- Anonymous - Galle, detail
Doré (1863), Holiday (1876), Doré (1866)
The Hunting Of The Snark
A Nose Job
Henry Holiday alluding to John Martin
The Hunting of the Snark
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Size Height: 17.6 cm (6.9 in) Width: 20.8 cm (8.2 in) Depth: 20.8 cm (8.2 in)
Location Room 39 case 10
Description: The Beagle chronometer. In the British Museum.
Maker: Thomas Earnshaw
Date 27 June 2010
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).
See also: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Marine_Chronometer.jpg
For collecting time you don't need a subscription. And time doesn't take bribes.
381 · · “As to temper the Jubjub’s a desperate bird,
382 · · · · Since it lives in perpetual passion:
383 · · Its taste in costume is entirely absurd—
384 · · · · It is ages ahead of the fashion:
385 · · “But it knows any friend it has met once before:
386 · · · · It never will look at a bribe:
387 · · And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
388 · · · · And collects—though it does not subscribe.
389 · · “ Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
390 · · · · Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
391 · · (Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar,
392 · · · · And some, in mahogany kegs:)
393 · · “You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
394 · · · · You condense it with locusts and tape:
395 · · Still keeping one principal object in view—
396 · · · · To preserve its symmetrical shape.”
See also:
※ www.academia.edu/9970930/Hunting_Snark_with_Charles_Darwin
※ www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-Lewis-Carrolls-%E2%80%9CJubjub%E2%80%9D-a-riddle-about-%E2%80%9Ctime%E2%80%9D-and-or-%E2%80%9Cchronometer%E2%80%9D
Location Room 39 case 10
Description: The Beagle chronometer. In the British Museum.
Maker: Thomas Earnshaw
Date 27 June 2010
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).
See also: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Marine_Chronometer.jpg
For collecting time you don't need a subscription. And time doesn't take bribes.
381 · · “As to temper the Jubjub’s a desperate bird,
382 · · · · Since it lives in perpetual passion:
383 · · Its taste in costume is entirely absurd—
384 · · · · It is ages ahead of the fashion:
385 · · “But it knows any friend it has met once before:
386 · · · · It never will look at a bribe:
387 · · And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
388 · · · · And collects—though it does not subscribe.
389 · · “ Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
390 · · · · Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
391 · · (Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar,
392 · · · · And some, in mahogany kegs:)
393 · · “You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
394 · · · · You condense it with locusts and tape:
395 · · Still keeping one principal object in view—
396 · · · · To preserve its symmetrical shape.”
See also:
※ www.academia.edu/9970930/Hunting_Snark_with_Charles_Darwin
※ www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-Lewis-Carrolls-%E2%80%9CJubjub%E2%80%9D-a-riddle-about-%E2%80%9Ctime%E2%80%9D-and-or-%E2%80%9Cchronometer%E2%80%9D
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Attribution:
- Photographer: Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)
- Source: commons.wikimedia.or/wiki/File:British_Museum_Marine_Chronometer_1.jpg
- Poetry: Lewis Carroll (www.snrk.de/snarkhunt/?newpics=no)
- Arrangement: Goetz Kluge (snrk.de)
British Museum reference: CAI.1957, L210 / Registration:1958,1006.1957
Detailed description: Marine chronometer, Rectangular mahogany box, lined with green beize, with brass carrying handles at the sides. Hinged lid with glazed viewing aperture and sliding mahogany cover. A key-operated lock at the front. There is an inserted plain ivory disc in the lid front. Silvered brass dial with Roman hours I-XII within a minutes circle. Subsidiary seconds dial above VI. Plain blued-steel hour, minute and seconds hands. Movement contained in a lacquered brass bowl. One-day spring-driven movement, with fusee and Harrison's maintaining power. Jewelled bearings for train wheels in screwed settings. Earnshaw spring-detent escapement with Earshaw split-bimetallic temperature compensation balance and free-sprung helical blued-steel balance spring.
Size Height: 17.6 cm (6.9 in) Width: 20.8 cm (8.2 in) Depth: 20.8 cm (8.2 in)
Location Room 39 case 10
Description: The Beagle chronometer. In the British Museum.
Date 27 June 2010
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).
The Bellman and Father Time, who won't take bribes.
right: Queen Elizabeth I at old age, Father Time and Death (who won't take bribes either):
Bonne journée !
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By the way:
soundcloud.com/a-history-of-the-world/ahow-091-ships-chronometer
"A 19th century chronometer. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at an instrument that first helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the world - a marine chronometer. In particular the chronometer that accompanied Charles Darwin on his historic voyage around the world on board HMS Beagle. With contributions by geographer Nigel Thrift and geneticist Steve Jones. Oct 11, 2010"
See also: www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/u6Qnc25jQ5OIO-X92mZz6Q
www.ipernity.com/group/332973
Snark hunting with Charles Darwin: www.academia.edu/9970930/Hunting_Snark_with_Charles_Darwin
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