Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 3

Henry Holiday (1839-1927) after Lewis Carroll [Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1896)

Originally 1876, this edition 1931.

Classification

Photograph

Museum

Wikimedia Commons

Credit line

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll, MacMillan and Co, Limited, St. Martin's Street, London, 1931.

Rights

Public domain, as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Wikimedia Commons

About this work

Third of Henry Holiday's original ilustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.

This illustrates the end section of Fit the First: The Landing. The Butcher has said he can only butcher beavers, and so:

Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy.

• Early photography
• Photographs
• Animals
• People
• 1800s