Snark Gallery

Henry Holiday, Gustave Doré (2x) , Lewis Carroll (mirror view), Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (mirror view), John Martin , Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (I am not so sure about Henry Holiday's allusion to the image on the lower right side by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.)

053 · · The last of the crew needs especial remark, 054· · · · Though he looked an incredible dunce: 055· · He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark," 056· · · · The good Bellman engaged him at once. · · · · · · · · · · · · (Lewis Carroll, from The Hunting of the Snark , 1876) · · · · · · Need I rehearse the history of Jowett? · · · · · · I need not, Senior Censor, for you know it. · · · · · · That was the Board Hebdomadal, and oh! · · · · · · Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow! · · · · · · · · · · · · (Lewis Carroll, from Notes by an Oxford chiel , 1874) Here the Butcher's face could be an allusion to Benjamin Jowett 's face. Jowett was an Oxford contemporary of Lewis Carroll .

Anne Hale, Mrs Hoskins (1629) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger and a segment (mirror view) of an illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

The Bellman (segment of an illustration by Henry Holliday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark ) and a mirrored view of an unfinished portrait of Sir Henry Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger Yes, the noses and the eyes are different. This is not a face comparison. In this case, Holiday's pictorial allusions refer to the surroundings of Lee's face, not to the face itself. As in several other cases, Holiday maintained the topological relation between the quoted shapes. Here the shapes are the nodes in two quite similar graphs. Holiday even "copied" the cracks in the varnish of Gheerert's painting.

To me, the Bellman 's arm (upper left corner in the right image) always looked strangely rounded. But obviously there are arms like that. It took me a long time (until today) to get the idea that also these two images could be related although I know Duchenne's photo (shown here in mirror view) since a couple of years. www.evolutionnews.org/2012/05/creepy_ghoulish059671.html "Creepy," "ghoulish," "not the best science" -- these are a few indisputable descriptions applied (by Wired magazine ) to an experiment Charles Darwin conducted in 1868. He was getting ready to write his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and set out to sample reactions from all of 24 human subjects as they responded to and characterized a series of creepy, ghoulish photographs by French physiologist Benjamin Duchenne. Charles Darwin didn't conduct these weird experiments. Duchenne did. On the right side you see a detail from Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). The only known letter exchange between C. L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and Charles Darwin was about photos of facial expressions, which Dodgson offered to Darwin (who kindly rejected the offer).

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. · · 513 · · He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace · · 514· · · · The least likeness to what he had been: · · 515· · While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white- · · 516· · · · A wonderful thing to be seen! · · 517· · To the horror of all who were present that day. · · 518· · · · He uprose in full evening dress, · · 519· · And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say · · 520· · · · What his tongue could no longer express. · · 521· · Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- · · 522· · · · And chanted in mimsiest tones · · 523· · Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, · · 524· · · · While he rattled a couple of bones. Mahendra Singh guided me to this painting. I found a painting depicting a bone player in his blog which Mahendra used to tell us something about the bone ratteling Banker. Mahendra is a professional illustrator who not only is one of the few curageous and curious Snark hunters, but also (like Holiday) a very gifted architect of Snark conundrums in his own right. Just look at his own illustrations to his Snark edition (2010). ( justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2012/01/fit-7-pg-752-d... ) Mount painted The Bone Player after receiving a commission from the printers Goupil and Company for two pictures of African-American musicians to be lithographed (e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse ) for the European market. These became the last in a series of five life-size likenesses of musicians that Mount executed between 1849 and 1856. ( www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-bone-player-33207 ) Could Henry Holiday have seen that lithograph? In London, Goupil & Cie was established by Ernest Gambart. 17 Southampton Street. Moved to 25 Bedford Street, Strand in 1875 when Goupil & Cie took over Holloway & Sons and their salerooms. Goupil's manager in London was at this time Charles Obach. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupil_&_Cie )

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. · · 513 · · He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace · · 514· · · · The least likeness to what he had been: · · 515· · While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white- · · 516· · · · A wonderful thing to be seen! · · 517· · To the horror of all who were present that day. · · 518· · · · He uprose in full evening dress, · · 519· · And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say · · 520· · · · What his tongue could no longer express. · · 521· · Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- · · 522· · · · And chanted in mimsiest tones · · 523· · Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, · · 524· · · · While he rattled a couple of bones. Mahendra Singh guided me to Mount's painting. I found a painting depicting a bone player in his blog which Mahendra used to tell us something about the bone ratteling Banker. Mahendra is a professional illustrator who not only is one of the few curageous and curious Snark hunters, but also (like Holiday) a very gifted architect of Snark conundrums in his own right. Just look at his own illustrations to his Snark edition (2010). ( justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2012/01/fit-7-pg-752-d... ) Mount painted The Bone Player after receiving a commission from the printers Goupil and Company for two pictures of African-American musicians to be lithographed (e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse ) for the European market. These became the last in a series of five life-size likenesses of musicians that Mount executed between 1849 and 1856. ( www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-bone-player-33207 ) Could Henry Holiday have seen that lithograph? In London, Goupil & Cie was established by Ernest Gambart. 17 Southampton Street. Moved to 25 Bedford Street, Strand in 1875 when Goupil & Cie took over Holloway & Sons and their salerooms. Goupil's manager in London was at this time Charles Obach. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupil_&_Cie )

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. See also: www.academia.edu/9889413/The_Bankers_Face

For details: - www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/35432309 - www.academia.edu/9889413/The_Bankers_Face