pigs – The Hunting of the Snark

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

In some of his illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, Henry Holiday alluded to The Image Breakers, a 16th century print made by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. I see at least one of Holiday’s pigs in that print (spoiler) and also something which Henry Holiday could have turned into a Moritz bass tuba.

2019 is the year of the pig. Does that make me see pigs everywhere, or did Henry Holiday see that pig in Gheeraert’s print too?

Actually, I have to confess that I saw the pig already in 2009. But I didn’t mark it then:

2019-02-14

Happy Chinese New Year

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year with this misericord of a pig playing the bagpipes in @riponcathedral! #YearOfThePig pic.twitter.com/cBqHUCWXoE

— National Churches Trust (@NatChurchTrust) February 5, 2019

More fun to be found with pigs in Lewis Carroll’s (whose dad was a resident canon at Ripon) “Hunting of the Snark” poem. Original book drawing included pigs playing musical instruments. A coincidence that they are fashioned similar to the Cathedral’s misericords? pic.twitter.com/oh7cqSuc5T

— Gail McMillan (@ww_gail) February 5, 2019

What was that? You wanted a pig sitting on a barrel playing a lyre while three of his companions dance to the music? OK, here you go… pic.twitter.com/Cey0RM08c2

— Ian Groves 🇪🇺 (@LandscapeIan) August 24, 2017

his hopeful relative joined a band in the early 13th century – what is his/her instrument of choice?
(Psalter – BL, Lansdowne MS 420, f. 12v)https://t.co/bNM4GOE0nK #PolonskyPre1200 pic.twitter.com/U4vecl8LY4

— Tuija Ainonen (@AinonenT) February 5, 2019

Update 2019-06-11

pic.twitter.com/2Twe0mS8N3

— JulesGirlGuiding (@JulesRPardoe) June 11, 2019

Category: pigs

The Beaver’s Lesson

Pigs and a Tuba

Happy Chinese New Year