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Preparatory sketch by Henry Holiday for an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".

There seems to be a pictorial reference to the Sphinxes' breast in the sketch.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #EdwardVI #HenryVIII #Ahasuerus #sphinx #breasts #Bedpost #TheKingsBedpost #Allusion #PictorialAllusion #PictorialReference #Reformation #BreastsInArt #EdwardVIandThePope #PhilipGalle #MartenVanHeemskerck

More: https://bedpost.snrk.de or https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/.

The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by #MargaretAston in 1994 (PhD thesis): "The King’s #Bedpost: #Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait"

#TheKingsBedpost | #HenryVIII | #EdwardVI | #Tudor | #ThomasCranmer | #Ahasuerus | #EdwardVIandThePope

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/

@thissorryspacesuit @snarkology -- "This engraving has lost a bit of the subtlety of the painting." That's a very friendly way to describe that reproduction ;-).

Sorry, as for such reproductions, I don't have more examples. I found that engraving during my Snark hunt:
※ https://zirk.us/@snarkology/109452362909442413
※ https://snrk.de/page_sphinx/

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #ChristInTheHouseOfHisParents | #CarpentersShop | #Millais | #JohnEverettMillais | #PreRaphaelites | #JohnTheBaptist | #Sphinx | #EdwardVIandThePope

16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.

Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).

#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII #EdwardVIandThePope

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/

[1, left] #HenryHoliday (engraver: #JosephSwain), illustration to #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (#Lewis Carrol), #スナーク
[1, right] Holiday’s #PreperatoryDraft

[2] #JohnTheBaptist, #JohnEverettMillais (#Millais) #ChristInTheHouseHisParents (#TheCarpentersShop)

[3] #HenryVIII’s #bedpost, #EdwardVIandThePope, #Reformation", #PaulIII, #MargaretAston, #TheKingsBedpost, #Iconography, #Tudor, #sphinx

[4] #Ahasuerus consulting the records by #Philip Galle, #MaartenVanHeemskerck

https://snrk.de/page_sphinx/