No Mistake

A white spot not covered by ink?
A strange black shadow under the Billiard marker's chin? A bow tie?

Don't blame Joseph Swain, the engraver of Henry Holiday's illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark. Those "flaws" are no printmaking mistakes.

Probably Dodgson/Carroll knew that the little white spot on the Banker's coat is related to the reflection of light on a glass in William Sydney Mount's Bone Player painting. As a perfectionist, Dodgson would not have accepted flawed printing. Thus, Holiday created his pictorial allusions with Dodgson's consent - or even with Dodgson's support. Also, when lampooning Henry George Liddell (Dodgson's boss), Holiday and Dodgson may have worked together.

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Götz Kluge ^club

10 years ago.

Götz Kluge ^club

10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

Götz Kluge ^club

Thank you. But once one understands the game Henry Holiday played, finding all those allusions is not too difficult. Actually, I do not understand, that nobody discovered Holiday's allusions during the last 138 years. (Perhaps Alfred Parsons knew - and then alluded to one of Holiday's Snark illustrations himself.)

Liddell was Dodgson's/Carroll's boss in Christ Church College.

I do believe, that Henry Holiday also hid himself in that crew-on-deck scene:

Hennry Holiday, the Bonnetmaker and a Bonnet

By the way, the photographer liked to fool around a bit: Look at the fingers. For that, he had to do real 19th century "photoshopping", that is, without any computer graphics tool.

Then again, when illustrating the Snark, Holiday was younger than the Holiday shown on that photo with the funny fingers.

10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

Götz Kluge ^club

Thank you, Jennifer.

Here you can have another look at the Billiard marker and his chin, which has been kind of chopped off. But the shadow of the chin stayed. Or is it a bow tie?

10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

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