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Preparatory sketch by Henry Holiday for an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".
There seems to be a pictorial reference to the Sphinxes' breast in the sketch.
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #EdwardVI #HenryVIII #Ahasuerus #sphinx #breasts #Bedpost #TheKingsBedpost #Allusion #PictorialAllusion #PictorialReference #Reformation
More: https://bedpost.snrk.de (or https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/).
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #lewiscarroll #edwardvi #henryviii #ahasuerus #sphinx #breasts #bedpost #thekingsbedpost #allusion #pictorialallusion #pictorialreference #reformation
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The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by #MargaretAston in 1994 (PhD thesis): "The King’s #Bedpost: #Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait"
#TheKingsBedpost | #HenryVIII | #EdwardVI | #Tudor | #ThomasCranmer | #Ahasuerus
https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/
#margaretaston #bedpost #reformation #thekingsbedpost #henryviii #edwardvi #Tudor #ThomasCranmer #ahasuerus
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[1, left] #HenryHoliday (engraver: #JosephSwain), illustration to #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (#Lewis Carrol)
[1, right] Holiday’s #PreperatoryDraft
[2] #JohnTheBaptist, #JohnEverettMillais (#Millais) #ChristInTheHouseHisParents (#TheCarpentersShop)
[3] #HenryVIII’s #bedpost, #EdwardVI and the Pope, #Reformation", #PaulIII
[4] #Ahasuerus consulting the records by #Philip Galle, #MaartenVanHeemskerck, #MargaretAston, #TheKings Bedpost, #Iconography, #Tudor GroupPortrait
#HenryHoliday #JosephSwain #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #lewis #preperatorydraft #johnthebaptist #johneverettmillais #millais #christinthehousehisparents #thecarpentersshop #henryviii #bedpost #edwardvi #reformation #pauliii #ahasuerus #philip #maartenvanheemskerck #margaretaston #thekings #iconography #Tudor
Snarkology · @snarkology
73 followers · 83 posts · Server zirk.us[1, left] #HenryHoliday (engraver: #JosephSwain), illustration to #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (#Lewis Carrol)
[1, right] Holiday’s #PreperatoryDraft
[2] #JohnTheBaptist, #JohnEverettMillais (#Millais) #ChristInTheHouseHisParents (#TheCarpentersShop)
[3] #HenryVIII’s #bedpost", #EdwardVI and the Pope, #Reformation", #PaulIII
[4] #Ahasuerus consulting the records by #Philip Galle, #MaartenVanHeemskerck, #MargaretAston, #TheKings Bedpost, #Iconography, #Tudor GroupPortrait
#HenryHoliday #JosephSwain #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #lewis #preperatorydraft #johnthebaptist #johneverettmillais #millais #christinthehousehisparents #thecarpentersshop #henryviii #bedpost #edwardvi #reformation #pauliii #ahasuerus #philip #maartenvanheemskerck #margaretaston #thekings #iconography #Tudor