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Posted: 07 Jul 2013

Taken: 22 Mar 2013

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Joseph Swain •
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Snarked: Henry George Liddell

Snarked: Henry George Liddell
The comparison shows (left side) a reproduction of Henry Holiday's draft of the Billiard marker for an illustration to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and a redrawn detail (right side) from a portrait by George Cruikshan of Henry George Liddell's face. Liddell was Carroll's (Dodgson's) superior in Christ Church, Oxford.

The portrait by George Cruikshan shows Liddell at age 28. The resemblance of Holiday's draft of the Billiard marker to Carroll's boss perhaps was a bit too risky for Carroll. The similarity wasn't sufficiently deniable. In the final illustration Holiday was more cautious: He gave an older Liddell a wig (which slipped a bit out of position) and chopped of his chin.
Billiard-Marker & Henry George Liddell
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 Götz Kluge
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 Götz Kluge
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Henry George Liddell
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