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Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark"

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※ Text {https://t.co/0C4kN9XoZY}:
«He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white —
A wonderful thing to be seen!»

※ Illustration {https://t.co/yqDQ00ewNU}

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It's Urizen. (I symmetrized him a bit.)

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https://t.co/AHQetP092O is about what from my point of view Carroll's Boojum could be.

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If engravers copy prints without mirroring, then their copies are printed in mirror view. Could it be that the print posted by is a copy made for a low cost edition of the “Herōologia Anglica”?

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That reminds me of this masterful 16th century print (https://t.co/XTvpneJH6e):

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Matthias Grünewald played not only with my pareidolia. So probably I am not the first one who discovered the monstrous "face". I think that Gustave Doré saw it too.

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John Tufail also found possible references to geology in Egypt.

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