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Billiard-Marker & Henry George Liddell

Billiard-Marker & Henry George Liddell
[right]: Henry Holiday's depiction of the Billiard marker in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. The face in color is Henry George Liddell's face (by Hubert von Herkomer). Liddell was Carroll's (Dodgson's) superior in Christ Church, Oxford. (In the image I wrote "George Henry Liddell". But I am to lazy to correct that mistake now.)

[left]: The left image shows Holiday's draft for the right picture and an image depicting Liddell at age 28. That clear resemblance in Holiday's draft of the Billiard marker to Carroll's boss perhaps was a bit too much for Carroll. In the right picture the resemblance is weaker, but the asymmetry of the eyes and eyebrows still is there. In that 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.

The Billiard marker

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 Götz Kluge
Götz Kluge club
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Snarked: Henry George Liddell
Segments of a preparatory draft of the Billiard marker by Henry Holiday and an image depicting Liddell at age 28.

Henry George Liddell in
2009
11 years ago.
 Götz Kluge
Götz Kluge club
Henry George Liddell
2014
10 years ago.

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