[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,
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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.
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