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#Bedpost

Preparatory sketch by Henry Holiday for an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".

There seems to be a pictorial reference to the Sphinxes' breast in the sketch.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #EdwardVI #HenryVIII #Ahasuerus #sphinx #breasts #Bedpost #TheKingsBedpost #Allusion #PictorialAllusion #PictorialReference #Reformation #BreastsInArt #EdwardVIandThePope #PhilipGalle #MartenVanHeemskerck

More: https://bedpost.snrk.de or https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/.

※ [left] One of Henry Holiday's preparatory drafts for the illustration to "Fit the Third - The Baker’s Tale" in Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). Pay attention to the lines in the grey shaded area of the image.

※ [top right]: Unknown arist: "Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation", mirrored view (16th century, NPG 4165). Iconoclasm depicted in the window. Under the "window", 3rd from left is Thomas Cranmer who wrote the 42 Articles in 1552. The painting "Edward VI and the Pope" (NPG 4165) was, until 1874, the property of Thomas Green, Esq., of Ipswich and Upper Wimpole Street, a collection ‘Formed by himself and his Family during the last Century and early Part of the present Century’ (Roy C. Strong: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p.345). It was sold by Christie’s 20 March 1874 (lot 9) to an unknown buyer. Location: National Portrait Gallery, London

※ [bottom right]: Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck, redrawn (vectorized and mirrored) print "Ahasuerus consulting the records" (1564). The resemblance to the upper image was shown by Dr. Margaret Aston in 1994 in "The King’s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait" (p. 68). She also compared the bedpost to Heemskerck’s Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus. Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

More: https://bedpost.snrk.de (or https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/)

The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by #MargaretAston in 1994 (PhD thesis): "The King’s #Bedpost: #Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait"

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/

[1, left] #HenryHoliday (engraver: #JosephSwain), illustration to #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (#Lewis Carrol), #スナーク
[1, right] Holiday’s #PreperatoryDraft

[2] #JohnTheBaptist, #JohnEverettMillais (#Millais) #ChristInTheHouseHisParents (#TheCarpentersShop)

[3] #HenryVIII’s #bedpost, #EdwardVIandThePope, #Reformation", #PaulIII, #MargaretAston, #TheKingsBedpost, #Iconography, #Tudor, #sphinx

[4] #Ahasuerus consulting the records by #Philip Galle, #MaartenVanHeemskerck

https://snrk.de/page_sphinx/

[1, left] – 1876, Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain): The illustration detail on the very left side is from Holiday’s illustration to an 1910 edition of Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark".
[1, right] – Additionally you see a segment from Holiday’s preperatory draft for that illustration. You clearly can see how Henry Holiday intended to give parts of the drapery the shape of breasts (from [3] and/or [4].

[2] – 1850, the young John the Baptist in John Everett Millais‘ "Christ in the House of His Parents" (aka "The Carpenter’s Shop"). The left leg of the boy looks a bit deformed. This is no mistake. Probably Millais referred to [3] and/or to [4].

[3] – "Henry VIII’s bedpost", 16th century, unknown artist: Detail (in mirror view) from "Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation". The pope could be Paul III.

[4] – (bedpost [3] alludes to bedpost [4]): 1564, Redrawn segment of a print "Ahasuerus consulting the records" by Philip Galle (after Maarten van Heemskerck). The resemblance of [3] to the image [4] (the bedpost) was shown by the late Margaret Aston in 1994 in "The King’s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait" (p. 68). She also compared the bedpost to Heemskerck’s "Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus".

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