Old Snark

King Edward I "Longshanks" hiding in the bushes? In a part of the detail I changed contrast and color. Then I vectorized the image.

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

B/W image: [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 in mirrow view from The Bard (ca. 1817), now in the Yale Center for British Art Color image: John Martin: The Bard (detail)

[main image] John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), desaturated colors & increased lightness & increased contrast in lower right segment [inset] Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark , detail Album: John Martin

[main image] John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), desaturated colors & increased lightness [inset] Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark , detail Here the Jubjub meets the Cherub-Choir. Related poetry: "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode" by Thomas Gray and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.

[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 , desaturated (because color is not important for the comparison) & contrast increased In mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/the-bard-by-john-martin , "Jonathan" connects the painting to the poem The Bard written by by Thomas Gray in 1755. Inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard: · · ... · · On a rock, whose haughty brow · · Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood, · · Robed in the sable garb of woe · · With haggard eyes the Poet stood; · · ... · · A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir, · · Gales from blooming Eden bear; · · And distant warblings lessen on my ear, · · That lost in long futurity expire. · · Fond impious Man, think'st thou, yon sanguine cloud, · · Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day? · · To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, · · And warms the nations with redoubled ray. · · "Enough for me: With joy I see · · The different doom our Fates assign. · · Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care, · · To triumph, and to die, are mine." · · He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height · · Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. · · ... Full text: www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=bapo spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&tex... www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/gray.bard.html www.google.com/search?q="A+Voice,+as+of+the+Cherub-Choir" The poem and the painting may have been an inspiration to Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark . This is about The Vanishing of The Baker : · · 537 · · "There is Thingumbob shouting!" the Bellman said, · · 538· · · · "He is shouting like mad, only hark! · · 539· · He is waving his hands, he is wagging his head, · · 540· · · · He has certainly found a Snark!" · · 541· · They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed · · 542· · · · "He was always a desperate wag!" · · 543· · They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed-- · · 544· · · · On the top of a neighbouring crag. · · 545· · Erect and sublime, for one moment of time. · · 546· · · · In the next, that wild figure they saw · · 547· · (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm, · · 548· · · · While they waited and listened in awe. I think that there are allusions to "Cherubic Songs by night from neighbouring Hills" in Milton's Paradise Lost not only in Gray's ode, but also in Carroll's poem. Album: John Martin

===== 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.)

My first Snark finding