Photographic self portrait by Lewis Carroll, and its inclusion into an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's
The Hunting of the Snark. In the drafts and in Holiday's drawing I didn't see that structure.
[top]: Henry Holiday: vectorized segment of an illustration (cut by Joseph Swain) to
The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's
The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
[left]: Original detail
[center]: Low pass filtered detail
[right]: Photographic self portrait by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll, May 1875) displayed in mirror view. (Credits for the photo: Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford)
Perhaps Joseph Swain (the cutter) played a bigger role in this allusion&citation game. I think that C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) knew about Henry Holiday's allusions. There even may have been a cooperation in
combining pictorial and textual allusions. But how can we be sure that Carroll/Dodgson knew about the "hidden Carroll" and the provoking simulacrum (based on a fold in the suit) in that picture?
This comparison also shows, how low pass filtering (blurring) can help. It removes unimportant details in a similar way as our eye/brain "removes" the single dots in a dithered image. In 2009 I initially used the illustrations in the
Snark version of
Ebooks Adelaide. Due to their low resolution they were blurred renderings of Holiday's illustrations already. Without the blurring I perhaps would not have noticed the first allusion which I found in December 2008.
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Götz Kluge said:
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- Charles Darwin
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
- Henry Holiday
- Benjamin Jowett
- Henry George Liddell
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