Contributions of the group Antique Books and Engravings

Telescope and Library, Melk Abbey

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:28:05 +0000

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Taken during our visit to Melk Abbey on our Danube River cruise in 2010.

Taken with Nikon and processed with GIMP.

1898 Map of South America Showing Patagonia

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:54:52 +0000

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Scan of a map printed in 1898.

Click to view more detail.

1898 Map of Alaska Showing Panhandle Area

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:54:28 +0000

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Scan of a map printed in 1898. Note the areas marked with red, they are the gold fields of the 1898 rush.

This map shows Sitka as the capital; it was later moved to Juneau.

I have had the pleasure of cruising these passages on the Alaska State Ferry (and a few cruise ships, too).

Just some of the maps I have online (for Sunday Challenge too!)

PiP for another detail of the Inside Passage area.

Nose is a Nose is a Nose

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:45:10 +0000

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Knight Letter (ISSN 0193-886X) of the LCSNA (Lewis Carroll Society of North America), Fall 2017, № 99

Details: snrk.de/knight-letter-links/kl-fall2017

SSC - Meyers Encyclopedia from 1894

nobody@ipernity.com (Ruebenkraut) — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 09:34:09 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Veterok) — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:15:58 +0000

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Thomas Cranmer's Boojum

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:54:42 +0000

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See also: www.academia.edu/9918883/Thomas_Cranmers_42_Boxes

The upper left image is a detail lfrom a print (c. 1630) which shows the burning of Thomas Cranmer.

The lower left is a +135° rotated detail from Henry Holiday's illustration (large image on the right side) to the final chapter The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

In The annotated ... Snark, Martin Gardner wrote about Henry Holiday's illustration to the last chapter of Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark: "Thousands of readers must have glanced at this drawing without noticing (though they may have shivered with subliminal perception) the huge, almost transparent head of the Baker, abject terror on his features, as a giant beak (or is it a claw?) seizes his wrist."

I think, there is neither a beak nor a claw.

About The Baker:

· · · · 021 · · There was one who was famed for the number of things
· · · · 022 · · · · He forgot when he entered the ship:
· · · · 023 · · His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
· · · · 024 · · · · And the clothes he had bought for the trip.

· · · · 025 · · He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
· · · · 026 · · · · With his name painted clearly on each:
· · · · 027 · · But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
· · · · 028 · · · · They were all left behind on the beach.

· · · · 029 · · The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
· · · · 030 · · · · He had seven coats on when he came,
· · · · 031 · · With three pairs of boots--but the worst of it was,
· · · · 032 · · · · He had wholly forgotten his name.

· · · · 033 · · He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,
· · · · 034 · · · · Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"
· · · · 035 · · To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"
· · · · 036 · · · · But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

· · · · 037 · · While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
· · · · 038 · · · · He had different names from these:
· · · · 039 · · His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
· · · · 040 · · · · And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."

· · · · 041 · · "His form is ungainly--his intellect small--"
· · · · 042 · · · · (So the Bellman would often remark)
· · · · 043 · · "But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
· · · · 044 · · · · Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."

· · · · 045 · · He would joke with hyenas, returning their stare
· · · · 046 · · · · With an impudent wag of the head:
· · · · 047 · · And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
· · · · 048 · · · · "Just to keep up its spirits," he said.

· · · · 049 · · He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late--
· · · · 050 · · · · And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad--
· · · · 051 · · He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state,
· · · · 052 · · · · No materials were to be had.

That is, there were no brides in the crew.

Sources:

www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19289289

www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3066133&partId=1&people=122781&peoA=122781-1-9&page=1

luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~810509~152457:Faiths-victorie-in-Romes-crueltie--

Anthropomorphic Landscapes

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 07:16:55 +0000

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I used this small image in a comment to publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-hidden-faces-anthropomorphic-landscapes

Antropomorphism isn't about faces only. Actually, humans have two pairs of cheeks. One pair of these cheeks is part of our faces. The other pair of cheeks is elswhere on our bodies. (If sitters are sitters, you don't see that pair too well.) In the example below from one of Henry Holiday's illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (engraved by Joseph Swain), Holiday wasn't inspired by John Martin's "The Bard" only. He also altered his allusion to that painting by giving the rocks the shape of our lower second pair of cheeks. And he also copied a small pattern from Martin's painting which doesn't contribute to the appearance of his illustration. Thus, this pattern simply may serve as a hint to the beholders of his Snark illustration that Holiday didn't steal anything from John Martin. Henry Holiday was an honest conundrum builder.

Did you find the antropomorphic "cheeks" on the rocks in the detail from Henry Holiday's illustration, which I mounted as an inset into John Martin's "The Bard"?

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nobody@ipernity.com (Veterok) — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:10:33 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Veterok) — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:10:39 +0000

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Next project

Surrounded by Monsters

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:12:27 +0000

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Gustave Doré: Don Qixote (1863)
Matthias Grünewald: The Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1512-1516)
Henry Holiday: The Beaver's Lesson (in The Hunting of the Snark, 1876)

h60 - Snark Court

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:59:32 +0000

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14681 x 10000

Very large version of www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19289317

Schnarkverschlimmbesserung

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:35:27 +0000

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from www.academia.edu/9964379/Schnarkverschlimmbesserung

[1910]: Illustration by Henry Holiday (illustrator) and Joseph Swain (wood cutter) to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark ("corrected" by Macmillan in 1910)

[1876]: Detail from an illustration by Henry and Swain to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1st edition, 1876)

[1856]: Detail (mirror view) from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston.

“Improvement” in German is “Verbesserung”. If things get worse, a “Verschlimmerung” has happened. Jokingly (Germans sometimes can do that) we call “Verschlimmbesserung” what has been made worse after someone tried to improve it. That is what the publisher Macmillan did about 100 years ago. They removed a white spot from the illustration by Henry Holiday (illustrator) and Joseph Swain (wood cutter) to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). I found this Verschlimmbesserung in a smaller low-quality Snark edition published by Macmillan in 1910.

Perhaps the publisher thought that the white spot was Joseph Swain's mistake. But would Henry Holiday and C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) have tolerated such a mistake? As these perfectionists wouldn't have accepted any bad craftsmanship, the white spot must have had a purpose:

Pig Band

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 05:48:07 +0000

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Detail from an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"

Trial of a sow and pigs at Lavegny (1457)

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 07:28:03 +0000

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Trial of a sow and pigs at Lavegny

Source: openlibrary.org/works/OL3799645W/The_book_of_days
The book of days: a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character. 14 editions
By Robert Chambers
Page 128

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambers_Book_of_Days (1864)

See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
Illustration from Chambers Book of Days depicting a sow and her piglets being tried for the murder of a child. The trial allegedly in Levagny took place in 1457, the mother being found guilty and the piglets acquitted.

See also: www.academia.edu/10005942/The_Snark_in_your_Dreams

Thomas Cranmer's Burning

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:47:02 +0000

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See also: www.academia.edu/9918883/Thomas_Cranmers_42_Boxes

The left and right image both are segments from prints which show the burning of Thomas Cranmer.

The image in the center is a +135° rotated detail from Henry Holiday's illustration to the final chapter The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark,

In The annotated ... Snark, Martin Gardner wrote about Henry Holiday's illustration to the last chapter of Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark: "Thousands of readers must have glanced at this drawing without noticing (though they may have shivered with subliminal perception) the huge, almost transparent head of the Baker, abject terror on his features, as a giant beak (or is it a claw?) seizes his wrist."

I think, there is neither a beak nor a claw.

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

Bellman & Bard

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:40:41 +0000

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[main image]: John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), by GIMP: contrast enhanced in the rock area & light areas delated.

[inset] Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, detail

In mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/the-bard-by-john-martin, "Jonathan" connects the painting to the poem The Bard written by by Thomas Gray in 1755. Inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard:
· · ...
· · On a rock, whose haughty brow
· · Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood,
· · Robed in the sable garb of woe
· · With haggard eyes the Poet stood;
· · ...
· · A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,
· · Gales from blooming Eden bear;
· · And distant warblings lessen on my ear,
· · That lost in long futurity expire.
· · Fond impious Man, think'st thou, yon sanguine cloud,
· · Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day?
· · To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,
· · And warms the nations with redoubled ray.
· · "Enough for me: With joy I see
· · The different doom our Fates assign.
· · Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care,
· · To triumph, and to die, are mine."
· · He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height
· · Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.
· · ...

Full text:
www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=bapo
spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&tex...
www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/gray.bard.html
www.google.com/search?q="A+Voice,+as+of+the+Cherub-Choir"

The poem and the painting may have been an inspiration to Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark. This is about The Vanishing of The Baker:
· · 537 · · "There is Thingumbob shouting!" the Bellman said,
· · 538 · · · · "He is shouting like mad, only hark!
· · 539 · · He is waving his hands, he is wagging his head,
· · 540 · · · · He has certainly found a Snark!"

· · 541 · · They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed
· · 542 · · · · "He was always a desperate wag!"
· · 543 · · They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
· · 544 · · · · On the top of a neighbouring crag.

· · 545 · · Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
· · 546 · · · · In the next, that wild figure they saw
· · 547 · · (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm,
· · 548 · · · · While they waited and listened in awe.

Album:

John Martin

The Monster in the Branches

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:26:59 +0000

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2014-01-26: I like this allusion by Henry Holiday in one of his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark to a little detail in John Martin's The Bard so much, that I made yet another assemblage.

Color image:
John Martin: The Bard, now in the Yale Center for British Art

Large black&white inlay:
[left]: John Martin: Detail from The Bard (ca. 1817)
[right, mirror view]: Henry Holiday: From Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

I assume, that Holiday used allusions in order to construct conundrums. However, alluding to works of other artists also helps to draw inspiration in a quick and efficient manner.

See also p. 3 in www.academia.edu/9923718/Henry_Holidays_Monsterspotting

Recycled Bellman Draft

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:33:05 +0000

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In an early draft to the image The Crew on Deck, the Bellman had a different face than the one which the Bellman had in the final illustration. Henry Holiday moved that round faced character to the illustration The Barrister's Dream and then turned the Bellman into a Darwin look-alike.