The Banker

From Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday (engraved by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark depicting the Bellman (a cartoonish version with bigger nose), the Baker, the Barrister, the Billard marker (dipicted only in this illustration), the Banker (looks different in some other illustrations), the Bonnet maker (half hidden face; only in this illustration, perhaps an "Assistenzselbstbildnis" of Henry Holiday) and the Broker. Whatsoever, on board of that snarked vessel you probably can forget about playing billards anyway.

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. · · 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! · · 517· · To the horror of all who were present that day. · · 518· · · · He uprose in full evening dress, · · 519· · And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say · · 520· · · · What his tongue could no longer express. · · 521· · Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- · · 522· · · · And chanted in mimsiest tones · · 523· · Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, · · 524· · · · While he rattled a couple of bones. Mahendra Singh guided me to this painting. I found a painting depicting a bone player in his blog which Mahendra used to tell us something about the bone ratteling Banker. Mahendra is a professional illustrator who not only is one of the few curageous and curious Snark hunters, but also (like Holiday) a very gifted architect of Snark conundrums in his own right. Just look at his own illustrations to his Snark edition (2010). ( justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2012/01/fit-7-pg-752-d... ) Mount painted The Bone Player after receiving a commission from the printers Goupil and Company for two pictures of African-American musicians to be lithographed (e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse ) for the European market. These became the last in a series of five life-size likenesses of musicians that Mount executed between 1849 and 1856. ( www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-bone-player-33207 ) Could Henry Holiday have seen that lithograph? In London, Goupil & Cie was established by Ernest Gambart. 17 Southampton Street. Moved to 25 Bedford Street, Strand in 1875 when Goupil & Cie took over Holloway & Sons and their salerooms. Goupil's manager in London was at this time Charles Obach. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupil_&_Cie )

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. · · 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! · · 517· · To the horror of all who were present that day. · · 518· · · · He uprose in full evening dress, · · 519· · And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say · · 520· · · · What his tongue could no longer express. · · 521· · Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- · · 522· · · · And chanted in mimsiest tones · · 523· · Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, · · 524· · · · While he rattled a couple of bones. Mahendra Singh guided me to Mount's painting. I found a painting depicting a bone player in his blog which Mahendra used to tell us something about the bone ratteling Banker. Mahendra is a professional illustrator who not only is one of the few curageous and curious Snark hunters, but also (like Holiday) a very gifted architect of Snark conundrums in his own right. Just look at his own illustrations to his Snark edition (2010). ( justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2012/01/fit-7-pg-752-d... ) Mount painted The Bone Player after receiving a commission from the printers Goupil and Company for two pictures of African-American musicians to be lithographed (e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse ) for the European market. These became the last in a series of five life-size likenesses of musicians that Mount executed between 1849 and 1856. ( www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-bone-player-33207 ) Could Henry Holiday have seen that lithograph? In London, Goupil & Cie was established by Ernest Gambart. 17 Southampton Street. Moved to 25 Bedford Street, Strand in 1875 when Goupil & Cie took over Holloway & Sons and their salerooms. Goupil's manager in London was at this time Charles Obach. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupil_&_Cie )

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. See also: www.academia.edu/9889413/The_Bankers_Face

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: Segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. Later Macmillan damaged the puzzle: They removed the white spot. In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark , the white spot had disappeared. However, it had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (reflection from a glass).

See also: www.academia.edu/9964379/Schnarkverschlimmbesserung In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark , an alledged error, which is not an error, had been removed. However, the removed white spot had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (depicting a reflection from a glass). [left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston.

In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark , an alledged error, which is not an error, had been removed. However, the removed white spot had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (depicting a reflection from a glass).

[left]: a segment of Henry Holiday's illustration to The Banker's Fate (after his encounter with the Bandersnatch ) in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and [right]: a horizontally compressed segment of The Image Breakers (1566-1568), an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. The resemblance of the "noses" is obvious once you mirror the nose in this image about a horizontal axis. Reinterpratation of shapes (examples): The segment of the spectacle frame is less obvious. Blurr the corresponding segment in Gheeraert's etching and you understand how Henry Holiday worked here (blue box). Another segment of the spectacle frame additionally has been black&white inverted (green box). A cross(?) in Gheeraert's etching turns into a rectangular nostril. Holiday kept it rectangular in his illustration (yellow box).

[left]: The Banker's nose in Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). [right]: "nose" (mirrored about a horizontal axis) from a horizontally compressed segment 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). ---> www.academia.edu/10103262/Noseflip_animation_