“The Hunting” by Henry Holiday, 1839-1927

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The Hunting

Henry Holiday, artist

Joseph Swain, Woodengraver

1876

This portrays the crew armed with various weapons along with two allegorical figures that Holiday introduced, Care and Hope. The Beaver holds a microscope. Page 41.

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Bibliography

Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits. Illustrated by Henry Holiday with Engravings by Joseph Swain. London: 1876, Macmillan,

Henry Holiday 1839–1927. London: William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, 1989, cat. 42, 11.

Holiday, Henry. Reminiscences of My Life. London: Heinemann, 1914.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Sixties. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1928.

Suriano, Gregory R. The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 200. 256-57.

Tanis, James and John Dooley Eds. Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, A Centennial Edition. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, 1981, 244-46.

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