monster – The Hunting of the Snark

Face it!

Artists, who have played with their own pareidolia first, know how to play with the pareidolia of the beholders of their works.

I incidentally found this in December 2017 as bycatch from my Snark hunt:

2017-12-23

The Beaver’s Lesson

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
Henry Holiday’s nine illustrations and the Ocean Chart
- Golden Age of Illustration, group in Facebook
- High resolution pixel graphics:
  grey shades (50MB) | black & white (13MB)
(x+7+10)*(1000-8)/992-17
arthur.io (copy of my scan)
Reddit: [2][1] | Facebook

2017-09-26, updated: 2022-09-04

Delightful Monster

Monsters, by Henry Holiday (left) and J. J. Grandville (right).

[…] One of the first three [illustrations] I had to do was the disappearance of the Baker, and I not unnaturally invented a Boojum. Mr. Dodgson wrote that it was a delightful monster, but that it was inadmissible. All his descriptions of the Boojum were quite unimaginable, and he wanted the creature to remain so. I assented, of course, though reluctant to dismiss what I am still confident is an accurate representation. I hope that some future Darwin in a new Beagle will find the beast, or its remains; if he does, I know he will confirm my drawing. […]

(Henry Holiday (1898): The Snark’s Significance)

Once you meet the Boojum, you might be Going Slightly Mad.