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Pictorial allusion by Henry Holiday to an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder in an illustration to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. Joseph Swain was the woodblock engraver.

  • [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.
  • [right]: a slightly horizontally compressed rendering of The Imagebreakers (1566-1568, aka Allegory of Iconoclasm), an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.

 

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2020-04-12, update: 2022-08-01

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