The Hunting of the Snark (1876) has been written by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Henry Holiday.
The Image shows Henry Holiday's illustrations to the front cover and the back cover of the book and paintings depicting Queen Elizabeth I, to which Henry Holyday may have alluded.
There are
many more pictorial allusions in Henry Holiday's
Snark illustrations.
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Götz Kluge said:
Götz Kluge said:
Götz Kluge said:
Elizabeth I & Her People
www.npg.org.uk/whatson/elizabethi/exhibition.php
Götz Kluge said:
The following question may answer to help the first question: Why do writers "hide" elements of works of other writers in their own writings?
web.archive.org/web/20161226172011/http://empirecontact.com/concept/allusion.html: "The most powerful stories operate on more than one level. They allude to another story or myth, indirectly referencing something biblical, classical, mythological, epic, poetic, musical, et cetera. Doing so engages the conscious and subconscious mind at once, making the story bigger than it is by itself; making it universal. Analogy, allegory, and conceit can also be used to the same purpose [...]"