Monster Nose

The image above is a new version of the image below. No big change. But in the new comparison it is easier (than in the old one shown below) to relate the enlarged "tree monster" to the place where it came from:


Color image:
John Martin: lower segment of The Bard, now in the Yale Center for British Art

Large black&white inlay:
[left]: Henry Holiday: From Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
[right, mirror view]: John Martin: Detail from The Bard (ca. 1817)

Album:

John Martin

Thank you. Interestingly, some Carroll-fans ("Carrollians") seem to be afraid of my comparisons. Some got angry and thought that I would accuse Henry Holiday (Carroll's illustrator for the Snark) of plagiarism. But Holiday didn't "steal". Artists and non-carrollian art lovers probably are much opener in dealing with what Holiday did. He constructed pictorial conundrums which match perfectly with Carroll's textual conundrums.

Also, this is a quite "English" thing. We are talking about The Hunting of the Snark! Strange, that the English leave the digging into this to a German :-)

Nylonbleu, you are French. You may be interested in how Holiday alluded to Gustave Doré.


Doré - Holiday


Doré - Holiday - Doré

Yes, In the image above, Doré "alluded" to Doré. (This is like "re-use" in software design, an absolutely legitimate process.) And Henry Holiday probably alluded to "both" of them ;-)