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  1. In "The Hunting of the Snark", Lewis Carroll (Reverend C.L. Dodgson) might have used the "Baker" as a reference to Thomas Cranmer.

    In line 241 the Baker says: "You may charge me with murder..." I think that Carroll had mixed feelings about Cranmer.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #LewisCarroll | #ThomasCranmer | #AnneBoleyn | #CatherineHoward | #JoanBocher | #AnnaCantiana | #martyrs

    (snrk.de/page_we-are-all-of-us-)

  2. Comparison (made in 2009) posted on Flickr in 2010. (Segment from screenshot from flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/)

    ※ Left: The "Banker" after his encounter with the "#Bandersnatch", depicted in #HenryHoliday’s illustration (woodcut by #JosephSwain) to the chapter "The Banker’s Fate" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876).
    ※ Right: A slightly horizontally compressed rendering of "The #Imagebreakers" (1566-1568), an etching by #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder.

    More: snrk.de/knight-letter-links/kl

  3. ※ Left: The "Banker" after his encounter with the "#Bandersnatch", depicted in #HenryHoliday’s illustration (#woodcut by #JosephSwain) to the chapter "The Banker’s Fate" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876).
    ※ Right: A slightly horizontally compressed rendering of "The #Imagebreakers" (1566-1568), an etching by #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder.

    More: snrk.de/flipping-the-nose/

    #Nose #Noses

  4. My most important Snark finding (#ReligSnark):
    In his #illustration (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#561) to fit#8 of #LewisCarroll's #tragicomedy "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876), #HenryHoliday hid a pictorial reference to the print "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" (published by Thomas Jenner, c. 1630). The attached image shows
    (1) the print (containing a depiction of #ThomasCranmer's burning) with a comment from a curator of the #BritishMuseum and
    (2) my image comparison.

    More: snrk.de/faiths-victorie-in-rom

  5. Left side: Two details from the illustration by #HenryHoliday to the chapter "The Hunting" in #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (woodcut by #JosephSwain)

    Right side: The 1674 print depicting William III (#WilliamOfOrange) as well as the allegorical figures for “religion” and “liberty”, a “liberum belgium” motive.

    Henry Holiday integrated three elements from that 1674 print into his illustration (1876). "Liberty" became "Hope" and "Religion" became "Care" (snrk.de/page_eagle-and-star/).

  6. The last paragraphs of "Life, Eternity,and Everything: Hidden #Eschatology in the Works of Lewis Carroll", pp. 25-41 by Karen Gardiner in "The Carrollian" (thecarrollian.org.uk/cgi-bin/a, Issue 31, 2018).

    Karen Gardiner's paper is one of the best articles I ever read about #TheHuntingOfTheSnark. Regrettably, lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/ didn't make it available online yet.

    #KarenGardiner #LewisCarroll #ThomasCranmer #EternalDamnation #EternalPunishment #Number42 #42Articles #ReligSnark

  7. My most important Snark finding (#ReligSnark):
    In his #illustration (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#561) to fit#8 of #LewisCarroll's #tragicomedy "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark" (1876), #HenryHoliday hid a pictorial reference to the print "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" (published by Thomas Jenner, c. 1630). The attached image shows
    (1) the print (containing a depiction of #ThomasCranmer's burning) with a comment from a curator of the #BritishMuseum and
    (2) my image comparison.

    More: snrk.de/faiths-victorie-in-rom