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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
Snarkology · @snarkology
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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
Snarkology · @snarkology
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16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.
Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).
#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII
#edwardvi #pope #allegoryofreformation #pauliii #margaretaston #thekingsbedpost #reformationandiconography #tudorgroupportrait #Tudor #tudorpainting #ThomasCranmer #iconoclasm #earlymodern #reformation #deathofhenryviii
Snarkology · @snarkology
73 followers · 84 posts · Server zirk.us16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.
Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).
#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII
#edwardvi #pope #allegoryofreformation #pauliii #margaretaston #thekingsbedpost #reformationandiconography #tudorgroupportrait #Tudor #tudorpainting #ThomasCranmer #iconoclasm #earlymodern #reformation #deathofhenryviii
Snarkology · @snarkology
73 followers · 84 posts · Server zirk.us16th century, unknown artist: "Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation". The pope could be Paul III.
Literature: #MargaretAston, in 1994 in "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).
#margaretaston #thekingsbedpost #reformationandiconography #tudorgroupportrait