“Leave him here to his fate—it is getting so late!”
The Bellman exclaimed in a fright.
“We have lost half the day. Any further delay,
And we sha’nt catch a Snark before night!”
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These images are the original caricaturish illustrations by Henry Holiday that accompanied Lewis Carroll's 1876 comic poem, The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits).
All 9 original Holiday illustrations are displayed, together with a reproduction of the text of The Hunting of the Snark at the University of Adelaide Library.
UPDATE (Feb. 2009): See this interesting pdf - mentioned by Goetz in a comment below - that provides some compelling evidence about the historical illustration origins/inspiration for Holiday's drawings in 'The Hunting of the Snark'.
7 comments :
Fantastic! This is the version that i read the Snark poem, ie the illustrations are so familiar...it took me way back in time. Thanks!
These illustrations have a interesting history:
http://www.snarkdown.de/picscollection.pdf
Goetz: wow! Thanks very much, that pdf of yours is really interesting.
Here is an update on "The Hunting of the Snark":
http://www.snrk.de/HolidaySnark.cgi
http://www.snrk.de/MillaisHoliday.pdf
Best regards from Munich
Goetz
Holiday even may have included a small picture of Carroll into one of his illustrations to the Snark. I put an image related to that illustration into an Amazon.com gallery ("lewis caroll" tag): http://lc.snrk.de/. (You can vote for or against the images in that gallery.)
The comparisons now are on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/5023294964/
My Snark comparisons moved: http://www.snrk.de.
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