“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!”
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'.
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!
ReplyDeleteThese illustrations have a interesting history:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.snarkdown.de/picscollection.pdf
Goetz: wow! Thanks very much, that pdf of yours is really interesting.
ReplyDeleteHere is an update on "The Hunting of the Snark":
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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.)
ReplyDeleteThe comparisons now are on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/5023294964/
ReplyDeleteMy Snark comparisons moved: http://www.snrk.de.
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