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About my Snark hunt
===== How I got into Snark hunting =====
In December 2008, I searched for “Hidden Faces” in the Wikipedia. I wanted to see whether an illustration by Henry Holiday (left) to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark was mentioned there. (Now it is.) But instead of that I found Gheeraert's Allegory of Iconoclasm (right, aka The Image Breakers) in the Wikipedia article on hidden faces. And then I saw a little rhombic pattern in the “mouths” of the “heads” depicted in both illustrations. The Snark hunt had begun.
left:
2009: Illustration by Henry Holiday to fit the eight in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
(This is the 2007 version of an image in ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/snark/#fit8.)
center:
2008-12-16: Detail from "Hidden Faces" in en.wikipedia.org,
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hidden_faces&oldid=258354510
right:
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Allegory of Iconoclasm, c.1566–1568 etching 15” x 10.4”, British Museum, London.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gheerhaets_Allegory_iconoclasm.jpg
(In December 2008 the image was smaller: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/f/f5/20100214083045!Gheerhaets_Allegory_iconoclasm.jpg, but even there you can see the detail which cought my attention.)
(The blur is intentional. It removes unecessary details.)
In December 2008, I searched for “Hidden Faces” in the Wikipedia. I wanted to see whether an illustration by Henry Holiday (left) to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark was mentioned there. (Now it is.) But instead of that I found Gheeraert's Allegory of Iconoclasm (right, aka The Image Breakers) in the Wikipedia article on hidden faces. And then I saw a little rhombic pattern in the “mouths” of the “heads” depicted in both illustrations. The Snark hunt had begun.
left:
2009: Illustration by Henry Holiday to fit the eight in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
(This is the 2007 version of an image in ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/snark/#fit8.)
center:
2008-12-16: Detail from "Hidden Faces" in en.wikipedia.org,
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hidden_faces&oldid=258354510
right:
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Allegory of Iconoclasm, c.1566–1568 etching 15” x 10.4”, British Museum, London.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gheerhaets_Allegory_iconoclasm.jpg
(In December 2008 the image was smaller: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/f/f5/20100214083045!Gheerhaets_Allegory_iconoclasm.jpg, but even there you can see the detail which cought my attention.)
(The blur is intentional. It removes unecessary details.)
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Here I probably went a bit too far. Holiday's depiction of a weed surely looks similar to Darwin's sketch of what later has been called "Tree of Life", but as far as I know, reproductions of Darwin's sketch were published in the 19th century earliest.
Nevertheless, I do believe, that Darwin's On the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859) and especially The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (1871) had an impact on Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876).
But there also is evidence for matches not being incidental:
Similarities between the shapes can be incidental. But Henry Holiday also largely maintained the relation of these five shapes to each other. I call this "topological match".
There are several examples for such a match.
I put them in a special group:
Search: "The Hunting of the Snark"