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.

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More: https://bedpost.snrk.de or 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

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