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This illustration is not by Henry Holiday

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There seems to be a consensus about Henry Holiday being the creator of the famous map of the Bellman, the “OCEAN-CHART”. That probably is wrong.

The Hunting of the Snark (1876) has been published “WITH NINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY HOLIDAY”. But there are ten illustrations in the book (plus Henry Holiday’s front cover and back cover illustration). So one of these ten illustrations in the book has not been made by Henry Holiday.

In the Knight Letter #87, Doug Howick assumed that Lewis Carroll arranged that chart.

I think that Howick right. There is no evidence that the Ocean-Chart (aka the Bellman’s map) has been made by Henry Holiday or by Joseph Swain (the engraver). It is more probable that a typesetter commissioned by Dodgson/Carroll made that typographical illustration

Detailed explanation: https://snrk.de/page_the-ocean-chart/ --DL5MDA (talk) 08:23, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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