513 · · He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
514 · · · · The least likeness to what he had been:
515 · · While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white-
516 · · · · A wonderful thing to be seen!
This is probably one of the strongest examples for resemblances between graphical elements in Henry Holiday's illustrations (1876, cut by Joseph Swain) and graphical elements in another image.
In this case the images are
[left]:
The Banker after his encounter with the
Bandersnatch, depicted in a segment of
Henry Holiday's illustration to
The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's
The Hunting of the Snark (scanned from an 1876 edition of the book) and
[right]: a horizontally compressed copy of
The Image Breakers (1566-1568) aka
Allegory of Iconoclasm, an etching by
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3, see also Edward Hodnett:
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Utrecht 1971, pp. 25-29). I mirrored the "nose" about a horizontal axis.
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