Götz Kluge's blog about Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy
What is a “Wimmelbild“? ※ Examples ※ Reddit: Henry Holiday’s Snark wimmelbild in r/wimmelbilder ※ Wimmelbild (de.wikipedia.org) ※ Wimmelbilderbuch (en.wikipedia.org) ※ The Image Breakers by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder ※ Hidden image in a wimmelbild by Matthias Grünewald ※ Henry Holiday’s illustration to The Beaver’s Lesson in The Hunting of the Snark Holiday’s pictorial allusions: … Continue reading “The Wimmelbild”
It seems that Mike Wilks snarked his wimmelbild a bit. 2026-01-20
The Butcher reasoning with the Beaver. This is the illustration (partially inspired by various works of other artists) to the chapter The Beaver’s Lesson. Images: Vector graphics in PDF for huge posters(Computers and printers need lots of memory to process this file.) 4400×6328 pixel graphics: grey shades | black & white The Wimmelbild (more … Continue reading “The Beaver’s Lesson”
2011-06 [left]: The Banker after his encounter with the Bandersnatch, depicted in Henry Holiday‘s illustration (woodcut by Joseph Swain) to the chapter The Banker’s Fate in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (scanned from an original 1876 1st edition of the book). [right]: a slightly horizontally compressed rendering of The Imagebreakers (1566-1568, aka Allegory … Continue reading “The Image Breakers”
On the left side of this comparison you see one of the nine illustrations by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876). On the right side is a wimmelbild by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, the Allegory of Iconoclasts (aka The Image Breakers, around 1567). In the “mouth” of Gheeraerts’ “head” a … Continue reading “My 1st Snark Hunting Trophy”