Götz Kluge's photos

Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) comes "with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday". But there are ten illustrations. One possible explanation: The Ocean-Chart in is not necessarily made by Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain. This is a typographical illustration. In the Knight Letter #87 , Doug Howick assumes, that Lewis Carroll arranged this chart.

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

"What can science reveal of the nature of man and the universe of which it is a part? This is the quest of the Snark." (Philo M. Buck: "Science, Literatur, and the Hunting of the Snark ", College English, Vol. 4, No. 1, Oct., 1942 ) I too think, that Carroll's poem is about science. It also is about the challenges of scientific research, to beliefs. This depiction of the Snark hunting party conducting a land expedition is one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876).

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) 357 · · So engrossed was the Butcher, he heeded them not, 358 · · · · As he wrote with a pen in each hand, 359 · · And explained all the while in a popular style 360 · · · · Which the Beaver could well understand. 361 · · “Taking Three as the subject to reason about— 362 · · · · A convenient number to state— 363 · · We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out 364 · · · · By One Thousand diminished by Eight. 365 · · “The result we proceed to divide, as you see, 366 · · · · By Nine Hundred and Ninety Two: 367 · · Then subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be 368 · · · · Exactly and perfectly true. 369 · · “The method employed I would gladly explain, 370 · · · · While I have it so clear in my head, 371 · · If I had but the time and you had but the brain— 372 · · · · But much yet remains to be said. 373 · · “In one moment I’ve seen what has hitherto been 374 · · · · Enveloped in absolute mystery, 375 · · And without extra charge I will give you at large 376 · · · · A Lesson in Natural History.” High resolution: - www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/37490830 - www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/36365750 - www.academia.edu/11375165/The_Beavers_Lesson

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Very large version: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/37780784

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Very high resolution version optimized for printing: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/37443754

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Back cover

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Back cover of an American 1911 edition

A B&W reproduction of my photo you find on page 211 in Josef H. Reichholf's book " Rabenschwarze Intelligenz: Was wir von Krähen lernen können " (Crow black intelligence: What we can learn from crows), March 2011 I took this photo of a crow's nest fallen down from a tree in 2002 in a suburb of Tokyo (Higashi-Yukigaya). Nearby was a dry clean where the bird probably found ample supply of exiting avantgarde construction elements. But I do not know, whether a storm brought the nest down or whether the bird only was experimenting not too successfully with futuristic designs for courtship.

Here you see a page from Josef H. Reichholf's book "Rabenschwarze Intelligenz: Was wir von Krähen lernen können" (Crow black intelligence: What we can learn from crows), March 2011 The author used the photo with my consent.

That is at least a bit friendlier than flickr's nuclear bomb: There is less collateral damage.

The Hunting of the Snark (1876) has been written by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Henry Holiday. The Image shows Henry Holiday's illustrations to the front cover and the back cover of the book and paintings depicting Queen Elizabeth I, to which Henry Holyday may have alluded. There are many more pictorial allusions in Henry Holiday's Snark illustrations.

Darwin did use tuning forks for experiments with spiders. 201 · · You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care; 202· · · · You may hunt it with forks and hope; 203· · You may threaten its life with a railway-share ; 204· · · · You may charm it with smiles and soap -- I think that The Hunting of the Snark alludes to many events in the Victorian era. Among those, Charles Darwins Beagle voyage, his discoveries and the resulting challenge to religious beliefs surely were important issues to the Reverend Dodgson (aka. Lewis Carroll) and his Snark illustrator, Henry Holiday. The image: Illustration by Henry Holiday to the chapter The Hunting in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Inset: Charles Darwin , photo probably by Messrs. Maull and Fox, around 1854, see also commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Darwin_aged_51.jpg . Inset in inset: Charles Darwin's "I think" sketch of the evolutionary tree ( about July 1837 , 1st notebook 1837-1838, page 36) compared to a "weed" in the lower left corner of Holiday's illustration. I learned, that Darwin did not keep his notebook secret after the publication of On the Origin of Species , but I do not know of any presentation of his sketch before 1876. Thus, the resemblance between the "weed" and Darwin's evolutionary tree sketch may be purely incidental. Remarks: (1) I also left a copy here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CharlesDarwinHuntingSnark.jpg , License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 (2) The person on the right side in Holiday's illustration is "The Banker". This figure has different faces in different illustrations. (3) Henry Holiday may have been inspired by Darwin's "tree of life" sketch when he did his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark . However, the problem with my guess is, that (as far as I know) the sketch still may not have been known to the public when Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday worked on The Hunting of the Snark .

#1 - (allusion to the bedpost #3): 1876, Henry Holiday: Segment of an illustration to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (vectorized after a scan from an 1910 edition of the Snark ) #2 - (allusion to the bedpost #3 and to Philip Galle's print #4): 1850, the young John the Baptist in John Everett Millais : Christ in the House of His Parents (aka The Carpenter's Shop ). The left leg of the boy looks a bit deformed. This is no mistake. Probably Millais referred to #3 and to #4. #3 - (Henry VIII's bedpost): 16th century, anonymous: Redrawn segment of Edward VI and the Pope, An Allegory of Reformation , (mirror view). #4 - (bedpost #3 alludes to bedpost #4): 1564, Redrawn segment of a print Ahasuerus consulting the records by Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck. The resemblance of #4 to the image #3 (the bedpost) was shown by the late Dr. Margaret Aston in 1994 in The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait (p. 68). She also compared the bedpost to Heemskerck's Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus .

Illustration by Henry Holiday to The Hunting of the Snark (1876, chapter The Vanishing ) and The Image Breakers (1566-1568) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. How does blurring help to compare the images? The Priest in the Mouth detail is displayed using two high resolution images (middle) which then again have been low pass filtered (bottom). That filtering helps to focus on larger structures. This was the first allusion by Henry Holiday to another work of art which I discovered in December 2008.

=== Henry Holiday's Allusions === The comparison shows illustrations [right side] by Gustave Doré (to John Milton's Paradise Lost , Book VI, 1866), [left side] Plate I of Gustave Doré's illustrations to chapter 1 in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1863 edition) and [center] by Henry Holiday (to The Hunting of the Snark , 1876). Probably also this applies: Doré (1863) -> Doré (1866). Why shouldn't a prolific artist re-use his own work? See also: www.academia.edu/9920080/Henry_Holiday_and_Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_borrowing_from_Gustave_Dor%C3%A9 === Safety at the Workplace === The story how I run into The Hunting of the Snark" is has been moved to this image: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/34431511

[left]: Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark [right]: John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), now in the Yale Center for British Art