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Mainly about Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark"
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![Monsters, by Henry Holiday (1875) and J. J. Grandville (1842).
Source: https://snrk.de/delightful-monster/
About Holiday's Boojum (left image):
«One of the first three [illustrations] I had to do was the disappearance of the Baker, and I not unnaturally invented a Boojum. Mr. Dodgson wrote that it was a delightful monster, but that it was inadmissible. All his descriptions of the Boojum were quite unimaginable, and he wanted the creature to remain so. I assented, of course, though reluctant to dismiss what I am still confident is an accurate representation. I hope that some future Darwin in a new Beagle will find the beast, or its remains; if he does, I know he will confirm my drawing.»
Source: Henry Holiday (1898) "The Snark’s Significance", https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HenryHoliday_TheSnarksSignificance__searchable.pdf
About Grandvilles monster (right image):
The Loves of Two Beasts (Freaking Monster) - in 'Animals Painted by Themselves: Private and Public Life of Animals' by Grandville, Chapter by Honoré de Balzac, ed. Hetzel
https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Grandville/1066441/The-Loves-of-Two-Beasts-(Freaking-Monster)---in-%27Animals-Painted-by-Themselves:-Private-and-Public-Life-of-Animals%27-by-Grandville,-Chapter-by-Honor%C3%A9-de-Balzac,-ed.-Hetzel.html](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vr3736rw7tegkvylmzm7m47v/bafkreiegx6fdu7tpefkquii2q5r4ppe3yygmppgatatdu2gtrv2yno26xy@jpeg)
!["SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley.
Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]"
Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248
doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f
http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt
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!["SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley.
Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]"
Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248
doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f
http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt
https://snrk.de/page_etymology-of-snark/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vr3736rw7tegkvylmzm7m47v/bafkreigdmpir2mdeskrni2n2yeyu3t5ynyo7thxkhzz2k7ia573b5us6vu@jpeg)
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