I am hunting the Snark. My main hunting grounds are Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". The shortlink bm.snrk.de leads you to my most important finding.

Heads up! The British Council is celebrating British arts for a global audience. How will @britisharts.bsky.social celebrate the coming 150th anniversaries of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" with Henry Holiday's masterful illustrations? #SnarkHeadsUp

Every Carrollian must insinuate themselves ever deeper into industry, government, military, public institutions, etc. Time to take back this planet! Back to the trees! Get off my lawn! #TheHuntingoftheSnark #LewisCarroll #GN #PenandInk #PearlsBeforeSwine #MelvilleHouse

That page of your Snark GN is about the taxonomy of the beast, which is quite applicable to a world ruled by Boojums. bsky.app/profile/snar...

Carroll might have used the time difference between his home and the Snarks location to give a hint where this location might be. bsky.app/profile/snar...

On November 1835, Charles Darwin breakfasted in Tahiti while folks back home had their five-o’clock tea (snrk.de/page_breakfa...). #Snark #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #CharlesDarwin #Tahiti #Breakfast #HMSbeagle bsky.app/profile/simo...

'The Queen's Palace at Papeete, Tahiti', c 1885. Illustration by Robert Taylor Pritchett in 'Journal of Researchers into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World', ... R.N. by Charles Darwin. See also ALT text.

I rearranged some verses in Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy "The Hunting of the Snark":

In an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" with allegorical depictions of two women as "Care" and "Hope", the illustrator Henry Holiday alluded to a Dutch 17th century print with allegorical depictions of two women as "Religion" and "Liberty". #Rijksmuseum #BritishMuseum

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #ThomasCranmer I think that Thomas Cranmer is one of the persons represented by the "Baker" and that C. L. Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll's) feelings about Cranmer were ambivalent. bsky.app/profile/snar...

#anglican #ThomasCranmer #TheHuntingOfTheSnark In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876, by Rev. C.L. Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll), a hidden depiction of Thomas Cranmer's hand in the flames can be found. See also: Curator's comment in snrk.de/faiths-victo....

Karen Gardiner, "Life, Eternity,and Everything: Hidden #Eschatology in the Works of Lewis Carroll", pp. 25~41 in The Carrollian, Issue 31, 2018. snrk.de/eschatologic... #TheHuntingOfTheSnark (The Hunting of the Snark), #LewisCarroll, #ThomasCranmer, #Anglican, #42Articles, #42, #EternalDamnation

snrk.de/snarkhunt/#p... And if "Boots" is a portmanteau for "Bonnets and Hoods" (snrk.de/boots-bonnet...), then this might explain why Henry Holiday depicted only nine Snark hunters in his illustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark".

#SnarkMusic See also: snrk.de/bajkas-snark/

#SnarkMusic Luna Nova Music (www.lunanova.org) "The Hunting of the Snark" Robert G. Patterson, composer Lewis Carroll, lyrics singer, harpsicord, cello, flute www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbxwCtwZww&rel=0 Published on 2015-07-02

#SnarkMusic Lewis Carroll "The Hunting Of The Snark" The Metaphorics (music.apple.com/ua/artist/th...) · Llafeht Publishing Pty Ltd (llafehtpublishing.com.au/CompactDiscs...) · Ross Aubrey (www.facebook.com/RossAubreyMu...) YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCz6..., provided by @distrokid.com

#SnarkGame #CardGame #SnarkGames #CardGames SNARK!, created by ZZOTA in 2006, is a card game based on Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". Jeremy Jexon Secker defined the rules in 1985. The beautiful design of the cards is by Xanna Eve Chown. Sadly, ZZOTA vanished away in 2017.

#SnarkGame #CardGame #SnarkGames #CardGames "Cards: Thoroughly shuffle a 52-card pack and deal seven each. From high to low, cards rank AKQJ1098765432. ..." www.parlettgames.uk/oricards/sna... contains the complete description.

Another #SnarkMovie is coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=423g... is the trailer of Joel Plue's film. Looks good. I think that "Billiard Maker" will have to be replaced by "Billiard-marker" (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#013). And "Maker of Bonnets and Hoods" should be "maker of Bonnets and Hoods".

Amir Damaskus fixed it: "Billiard Maker" has been replaced by "Billiard Marker". youtu.be/GUy5RAFchXg?...

I hope that the monster in the Joel Plue's #SnarkMovie is a Boojum, because Snarks are not bad. Here is some Snark taxonomy: snrk.de/snarks-have-....

On the left side you see how the "Boojum" looked like in the fantasy of the Snark illustrator Henry Holiday. The image was not published in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". It might have been inspired by J. J. Grandville's "Volvox" (right image).

On the front cover you see a part of Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate". I wrote an article (snrk.de/knight-lette..., animation: snrk.de/flipping-the...) about that depiction of the Banker in the LCSNA Knight Letter № 99, Fall 2017, p. 30~31.

www.facebook.com/groups/lewis... #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #illustration #IllustrationMagazine #bookcoverillustration #DitchleyPortrait #QueenElizabethI #victorianart

So far, probably only Carrollians read what I got published in printed media about the Snark. But in February 2025 my article “The Queen and the Snark” will be published in the British magazine ILLUSTRATION (Volume 21, Issue 80). bsky.app/profile/snar...

The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. (London: Macmillan, 1910) Cover design Henry Holiday. #beautiful-books #bookbinding #Booksky #book-covers

Henry Holiday also engraved the book cover illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" himself. (His illustrations in the book were engraved by Joseph Swain.) Holiday's Snark illustrations deserve more attention. #beautiful-books #bookbinding #Booksky #book-covers

"I used a section from Hunting of the Snark in my PhD thesis, which was on the topic of making maps from satellite images." (Harini Nagendra, 'Of George MacDonald and Lewis Carroll', 2025-08-22)

@harininagendra.bsky.social, as for satellite images (mentioned in your PhD thesis): there is one on the left side of the #sidebyside image below. #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

Walter Raleigh learns the wrong lesson

Raleigh grew up in Budleigh Salterton in Devon. It's inland That picture is doing a lot of imagining

Holiday snap?

Henry Holiday's snap.

I joined the site of the Boojum. Will that account stay or vanish away?

Whoever owns Yoda, they don't own Henry Holiday's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). My favorite Snark theme for the Firexox browser: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo....

#SideBySide #ArtInfluencesFilm

“Transportation for life”; was the sentence it gave, “And then to be fined forty pound.” The Jury all cheered, though the Judge said he feared That the phrase was not legally sound. snrk.de/snarkhunt/#473

I hope that there will be stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll and(!) Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2026.

#NationalKittenDay in the US: Details from a painting by Matthias Grünewald and an illustration by Henry Holiday to "The Hunting of the Snark", who saw a Kitten in Grünewalds painting. To artists paredolia is a tool.

#quotes #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #HeinzVonFoerster #RudolfArnheim #LeoSteinberg #TheHuntingOfTheSnark snrk.de/snarkhunt/#q...

Whoops, I missed Henry Holiday's birthday. He was born in the year 1839 on June 17th and illustrated Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt) three dozens of years later.