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Inspiration by Reinterpretation

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:35:13 +0000

Henry Holiday reinterprets Marcus Gheeraerts II in The Hunting of the Snark

[left]: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn (1614)

[right]: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Mary Throckmorton, Lady Scudamore (1615)

[center]: Henry Holiday: Segment of an illustration to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

· · 057· · He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared,
· · 058· · · · When the ship had been sailing a week,
· · 059· · He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
· · 060· · · · And was almost too frightened to speak:

· · 285· · But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
· · 286· · · · With yellow kid gloves and a ruff--
· · 287· · Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
· · 288· · · · Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."

· · 409· · Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
· · 410· · · · Have seldom if ever been known;
· · 411· · In winter or summer, 'twas always the same--
· · 412· · · · You could never meet either alone.

With yellow kid gloves and a ruff

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:37:24 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

[left (colored mirror view) and right (original)]: a segment from an illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to The Hunting of the Snark

[center]: Portrait (1615) of Mary Throckmorton Lady Scudamor by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. Here Holiday's creativity and playing with zoomorphism gave life to a scarf.

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The coloring of the gloves I added to Henry Holiday's illustration based on Lewis Carroll's poem. The Beaver's color I just guessed ;-)

· · 057· · He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared,
· · 058· · · · When the ship had been sailing a week,
· · 059· · He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
· · 060· · · · And was almost too frightened to speak:

· · 285· · But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
· · 286· · · · With yellow kid gloves and a ruff--
· · 287· · Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
· · 288· · · · Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."

· · 409· · Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
· · 410· · · · Have seldom if ever been known;
· · 411· · In winter or summer, 'twas always the same--
· · 412· · · · You could never meet either alone.

The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:55:47 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

In Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, the intertextuality of the poem is paralleled by the interpictoriality of Henry Holiday's illustrations: Here Henry Holiday reinterprets Marcus Gheeraerts I+II.

The image above shows Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter The Banker's Fate. (A small part of the left side has been removed in order to achieve a 4:3 ratio. The largest size is 5696 x 4352 pixels.) To Holiday's illustration I added images from which, in my opinion, he had borrowed shapes and concepts:

(1) Under the Banker's arm:
* Horizontally compressed segment of The Image Breakers (1566-1568) aka Allegory of Iconoclasm, an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3, see also Edward Hodnett: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Utrecht 1971, pp. 25-29). I mirrored the "nose" about a horizontal axis (yellow frame).

(2) Under the Beaver's paw (mirror views):
* [top]: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn (1614)
* [bottom, mirror view]: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Mary Throckmorton, Lady Scudamore (1615)