Lewis Carroll's, Henry Holiday's and Joseph Swain's Tragicomedy
[left]: Henry Holiday’s illustration (1876) to the front cover of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark [right]: A grey shaded reproduction of the Ditchley Portrait (a gift from Sir Henry Lee to Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1592) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. John Tufail’s The Illuminated Snark lead me to this comparison. He interpreted … Continue reading “When the Queen met the Boojum”
2009-07-09 [top segments]: Unknown artist (1674), Fig. 4/4 to the orartie van de Professor L. Wolsogen over syndroom en de nytlegging van de felue gadaen … . The animals are based on illustrations by M. Gheeraerts the Elder to Aesop’s Fables. (Print now is located at British Museum, BM Satires 1047, reg.no.: 1868,0808.3286) [bottom segments]: Henry … Continue reading “Religion and Liberty
Care and Hope”
