Album Snark hunting with Charles Darwin from Götz Kluge

HMS Beagle Laid Ashore

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:34:29 +0000

This print shows the HMS Beagle laid ashore at Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W, 1834-04-16.

The etching is based on a drawing by Conrad Martens and has been published in Francis Darwin, "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin", p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens’ drawing had been engraved already in 1838 by Thomas Landseer and published by H. Colburn in "The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle".

There is a little Easter egg in the image, but you don't have to wait until Easter to frame it nicely and give it away as a Christmas present to family & friends: The image is an assemblage of two Victorian prints: I took the liberty to add two persons (drawn by Henry Holiday and cut by Joseph Swain in Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark", 1876) to the image. But I didn’t touch the vessel.

The resolution already is quite high. In snrk.de/page_snarked-beagle you can find a vectorized version of my assemblage for large posters.

J. J. Grandville's Monsters

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:40:41 +0000

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(Vectorized image from a 19th century book)

Thanks to John Tufail (one of the few more curageous Snark hunters) for discovering the similarity to Henry Holiday's Boojum.

The Vivisector

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Fri, 29 May 2015 20:17:48 +0000

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Gabriel Cornelius von Max:
The Vivisector (1883)
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

See also: www.academia.edu/9962213/Lace-Making_An_Infringement_of_Right

The Expression of Emotions

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:03:18 +0000

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To me, the Bellman's arm (upper left corner in the right image) always looked strangely rounded. But obviously there are arms like that. It took me a long time (until today) to get the idea that also these two images could be related although I know Duchenne's photo (shown here in mirror view) since a couple of years.

www.evolutionnews.org/2012/05/creepy_ghoulish059671.html
"Creepy," "ghoulish," "not the best science" -- these are a few indisputable descriptions applied (by Wired magazine) to an experiment Charles Darwin conducted in 1868. He was getting ready to write his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and set out to sample reactions from all of 24 human subjects as they responded to and characterized a series of creepy, ghoulish photographs by French physiologist Benjamin Duchenne.

Charles Darwin didn't conduct these weird experiments. Duchenne did.

On the right side you see a detail from Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876).

The only known letter exchange between C. L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and Charles Darwin was about photos of facial expressions, which Dodgson offered to Darwin (who kindly rejected the offer).

Beagle Laid Ashore & Snarked

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:32:02 +0000

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I posted this as a 4758 x 3102 image earlier, but this one is much bigger: 8000x5200. It is an enlargement of the vectorized version of the earlier image.

This ship played an important role in the history of science. Its probably most well known passanger was Charles Darwin. However, the Bellman carrying the Banker from Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's "Hunting of the Snark" sneaked into the image.

The print is based on a drawing by Conrad Martens, etching published in: Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens' drawing has been engraved by Thomas Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle.

Date: 1834-04-16
Location: Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5...
That is the position calculated by Captain Robert FitzRoy (who had no GPS). The error was small. The drawing shows that the site must have been a river bank (50.13°S, 68.39°W?) near the calculated position.

See also:
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F10.2&vi...
thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/keel-overhauled-175...
beagleproject.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/two-feet-from-sink...

commons.wikimedia.org: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheBeagleLaidAshore.png

Darwin's snarked Study

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:59:03 +0000

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Ear & Embryo

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:55:52 +0000

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(under work)

Henry Holiday can draw ears. So, if an ear does not look like an well depicted ear, there may be a reason.

Ear & Embryo

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:33:15 +0000

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Background: Rotated detail from an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

Foreground: From Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man,_and_Selection_in_Relation_to_Sex
- commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Descent_of_Man_%28A._L._Burt_edition%29

The Banker is one of the members of the Snark hunting party. Henry Holiday can draw ears. If the Banker's ear looks strange it is meant to look strange.

The Baker's Dear Uncle

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:44:33 +0000

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In Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark I found that Holiday constructed his illustrations as pictorial puzzles by quoting elements from paintings and illustrations of earlier artists (three images on the right side of the comparison image shown above). Holiday assimilated these elements into his Snark illustrations. But I also found that Alfred Parsons may have quoted elements from one of Holiday's illustrations.

For more, click on the images in the comment below.

Darwins snarked Study

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 05:56:31 +0000

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Alfred Parsons' depiction of Charles Darwin's study in Downe. The wood cutter was J. Tynan.

I assume that Alfred Parsons quoted shapes from Henry Holiday's illustration (cut by Joseph Swain) to The Bakers Tale in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark in a similar manner as Henry Holiday used shapes in the works of earlier artists perhaps in order to "point" to these works. The match of each single shape could be quite incidental, but the the spacial relation of most shapes to each other also matches well. That is less likely to be just incidental.

(Alfred Parsons' depiction of Charles Darwin's new study is used here with permission by Dr. John van Wyhe, darwin-online.org.uk/. Henry Holiday's illustration has been scanned from a book published in 1911.)

This is one of the images which I posted on Flickr a few years ago. It is an earlier version of the image below:

Lacing Pillow

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:01:25 +0000

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--> www.academia.edu/9962213/Lace-Making_An_Infringement_of_Right

Detail from an illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876.

273 · · The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade--
274 · · · · Each working the grindstone in turn:
275 · · But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
276 · · · · No interest in the concern:

277 · · Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride,
278 · · · · And vainly proceeded to cite
279 · · A number of cases, in which making laces
280 · · · · Had been proved an infringement of right.

421 · · But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain
422 · · · · That the Beaver's lace-making was wrong,
423 · · Fell asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain
424 · · · · That his fancy had dwelt on so long.

(from Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876)

Why should a peaceful activity like lace-making have "proved an infringement of right"? How can lace-making be wrong? The Beaver's "lace-making" may have been used to symbolize dissection in context with C. L. Dodgson's (aka Lewis Carroll's) involvement in the vivisection debate.

Links:
o Charles Darwin: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/album/370833
o Eva Amsen, Alice's Adventures in Animal Experimentation, 2007-09-19, easternblot.net/2007/09/19/alices_adventures_in_animal_experimentation
o Lewis Carroll, Some Popular Fallacies About Vivisection, Fortnightly Review [London: 1865-1934] 23 (1875 Jun): 847-854; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003. www.animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-c1837-1901/victorian-c/car-lewis-carroll/1875-06-vivisection.htm
o On the usage of lace-needles with microscopes see pg. 391 in Darwin, C. R. 1849, On the use of the microscope on board ship, in Owen, R., Zoology. In Herschel, J. F. W. ed., A manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy, and adapted for travellers in general. London: John Murray, pp. 389-395.
"Circular discs of fine-textured cork, of the size of the saucers (with one or two circular springs of steel-wire to keep the cork at the bottom of the water), serve for fixing objects to be dissected by direct instead of transmitted light. For this end short fine pins and lace-needles should be procured; wherever it is possible, the animal ought to be fixed to the cork under water."
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&i...
o Jed Mayer: The vivisection of the Snark, 2009-06-22: Victorian Poetry (Amazon etext in HTML)
www.amazon.com/vivisection-Snark-fictional-animal-Report/...
o Rod Preece: Darwinism, Christianity, and the Great Vivisection Debate , Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 64, Number 3, July 2003, pp. 399-419
www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3654233
o Letters on vivisection from/to Charles Darwin: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/advanced-search?as-corresp=&as-person=&as-place=&ask-content=vivisection&asv-content=as-body&as-year-from=&as-year-to=&as-set=&as-physdesc=&as-volume=&as-repository=&as-calnum=&as-n=&intercept=adv&asp-page=0&as-type=letter&asdesc=#type=letters&secondKeyword=vivisection&sort=date&itemsPerPage=25¤tPage=1&filterOperand=AND
o People related to vivisection and Charles Darwin: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/advanced-search?as-corresp=&as-person=&as-place=&ask-content=vivisection&asv-content=as-body&as-year-from=&as-year-to=&as-set=&as-physdesc=&as-volume=&as-repository=&as-calnum=&as-n=&intercept=adv&asp-page=0&as-type=letter&asdesc=#type=people&keyword=vivisection&sort=title&itemsPerPage=25¤tPage=1&filterOperand=AND

Tree of Life

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:12:52 +0000

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Segment of an illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876

The segment on the lower right side is Charles Darwin's Tree of Evolution or Tree of Life sketch in his 1st notebook, page 36, 1837-1838. I learned, that Darwin did not keep his notebook secret after the publication of On the Origin of Species, but I do not know of any presentation of his sketch before 1876. Thus, the resemblance between the "weed" and Darwin's evolutionary tree sketch propably is purely incidental.

Postprocessing: GIMP perspective transformation tool

Questions:
(1) When did Charles Darwin publish a facsimile of his sketch fo the first time? When (e.g. in lectures etc.) was it presented for the first time?
(2) Or is there a completely different explanation? Holiday's "weed" also could allude to an eagle riding a wild boar.

jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub jub ...

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:58:48 +0000

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Size Height: 17.6 cm (6.9 in) Width: 20.8 cm (8.2 in) Depth: 20.8 cm (8.2 in)
Location Room 39 case 10
Description: The Beagle chronometer. In the British Museum.
Maker: Thomas Earnshaw
Date 27 June 2010
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).

See also: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Marine_Chronometer.jpg

For collecting time you don't need a subscription. And time doesn't take bribes.

381 · · “As to temper the Jubjub’s a desperate bird,
382 · · · · Since it lives in perpetual passion:
383 · · Its taste in costume is entirely absurd—
384 · · · · It is ages ahead of the fashion:

385 · · “But it knows any friend it has met once before:
386 · · · · It never will look at a bribe:
387 · · And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
388 · · · · And collects—though it does not subscribe.

389 · · “ Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
390 · · · · Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
391 · · (Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar,
392 · · · · And some, in mahogany kegs:)

393 · · “You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
394 · · · · You condense it with locusts and tape:
395 · · Still keeping one principal object in view—
396 · · · · To preserve its symmetrical shape.”

See also:
※ www.academia.edu/9970930/Hunting_Snark_with_Charles_Darwin
※ www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-Lewis-Carrolls-%E2%80%9CJubjub%E2%80%9D-a-riddle-about-%E2%80%9Ctime%E2%80%9D-and-or-%E2%80%9Cchronometer%E2%80%9D

Adriano Orefice: La cerca dello Squallo

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:18:16 +0000

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Il Covile, anno XII NO690, 2012-03-29,
ISSN 2279-6924
www.ilcovile.it/scritti/COVILE_690_Snark.pdf
(or pg. 101 in www.ilcovile.it/raccolte/RACCOLTA_COVILE__3_Fine_e_popolare.pdf)

Translation of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark, 16 pages:
LEWIS CARROLL
LA CERCA DELLO SQUALLO
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
NELLA TRADUZIONE DI
ADRIANO OREFICE

In the preface to the introduction to his Snark translation, Adriano Orefice (whose main business is quantum physics) associated the Snark hunt with research and Charles Darwin's Beagle voyage. Since 1982, Prof. Orefice's translation hibernated in some drawer until Raffaele Giovanelli (same business) found it 30 years later.

Beagle Landing

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:53:03 +0000

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Assembled scans from original 19th century sources:
• Print The Beagle Laid Ashore based on a drawing (1834-04-16) by Conrad Martens, etching published in: Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens' drawing has been engraved by T. Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle.
• Bellman, Banker and Beaver from illustrations by H. Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876

Beagle Laid Ashore (2)

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:53:04 +0000

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Vector graphics:
PDF: www.academia.edu/9919476/The_HMS_Beagle
PDF: www.snrk.de/BeagleLaidAshoreSnarked.pdf
SVG: www.snrk.de/BeagleLaidAshoreSnarked.svg.7z

Beagle Laid Ashore

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:53:05 +0000

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This ship played an important role in the history of science.

Print based on a drawing by Conrad Martens, etching published in: Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens' drawing has been engraved by Thomas Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle.

Date: 1834-04-16
Location: Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5...
That is the position calculated by Captain Robert FitzRoy (who had no GPS). The error was small. The drawing shows that the site must have been a river bank (50.13°S, 68.39°W?) near the calculated position.

See also:
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F10.2&vi...
thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/keel-overhauled-175...
beagleproject.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/two-feet-from-sink...

Vector graphics (slightly snarked version):
www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19726411

commons.wikimedia.org: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheBeagleLaidAshore.png

A little Zoo in Charles Darwin's Study

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:32:02 +0000

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Alfred Parsons' depiction of Charles Darwin's Study in Downe, drawn from a photo and engraved by J. Tynan, signed in August 1882, published in an article by Alfred R. Wallace in the Century Magazine (The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine), Volume 25, Nov. 1882 to April 1883. (Alfred Parsons' depiction of Charles Darwin's new study is used here with permission by Dr. John van Wyhe, darwin-online.org.uk/).

The little zoo, which Parsons (and Tynan) hid in his illustration, is highlighted by coloring the animals. Even when depicting real objects, artist can "play" with that reality.

But perhaps I also just fell victim to zoomorphism.

Darwin's Fireplace and the Baker's Dear Uncle

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:35:03 +0000

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Segments from
• [left, vertically stretched]: Photo (before 1882) of the top of the fireplace in Charles Darwin's study
• [center, vertically stretched]: from Alfred Parsons' depiction (1882) of Charles Darwin's study in Down
• [right]: an illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

This is not one of Henry Holiday's allusions. Here Alfred Parsons perhaps alluded to Holiday's illustration. Parsons did not simply copy a photo, he also rearranged the fire place decoration a bit.

The Uncle over Darwin's Fireplace

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:20:54 +0000

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Segments from
[left, vertically stretched]: The top of the fireplace in Alfred Parsons' depiction (1882) of Charles Darwin's study in Downe
[right]: an illustration (1876, printed 1911) by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

Rescaleable formats for printing posters: PDF (7.7 MB) and SVGZ (8.3 MB).

(The segment of Alfred Parsons' depiction of Charles Darwin's new study is used here with permission by Dr. John van Wyhe, darwin-online.org.uk/. Henry Holiday's illustration has been scanned from a 1911 book.)