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[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
![[1, left] – 1876, Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain): The illustration detail on the very left side is from Holiday’s illustration to an 1910 edition of Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark".
[1, right] – Additionally you see a segment from Holiday’s preperatory draft for that illustration. You clearly can see how Henry Holiday intended to give parts of the drapery the shape of breasts (from [3] and/or [4].
[2] – 1850, the young John the Baptist in John Everett Millais‘ "Christ in the House of His Parents" (aka "The Carpenter’s Shop"). The left leg of the boy looks a bit deformed. This is no mistake. Probably Millais referred to [3] and/or to [4].
[3] – "Henry VIII’s bedpost", 16th century, unknown artist: Detail (in mirror view) from "Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation". The pope could be Paul III.
[4] – (bedpost [3] alludes to bedpost [4]): 1564, Redrawn segment of a print "Ahasuerus consulting the records" by Philip Galle (after Maarten van Heemskerck). The resemblance of [3] to the image [4] (the bedpost) was shown by the late Margaret Aston in 1994 in "The King’s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait" (p. 68). She also compared the bedpost to Heemskerck’s "Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus".](https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/109/452/282/446/041/610/original/04169fb0b842af68.png "[1, left] – 1876, Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain): The illustration detail on the very left side is from Holiday’s illustration to an 1910 edition of Lewis Carroll’s \"The Hunting of the Snark\".
[1, right] – Additionally you see a segment from Holiday’s preperatory draft for that illustration. You clearly can see how Henry Holiday intended to give parts of the drapery the shape of breasts (from [3] and/or [4].
[2] – 1850, the young John the Baptist in John Everett Millais‘ \"Christ in the House of His Parents\" (aka \"The Carpenter’s Shop\"). The left leg of the boy looks a bit deformed. This is no mistake. Probably Millais referred to [3] and/or to [4].
[3] – \"Henry VIII’s bedpost\", 16th century, unknown artist: Detail (in mirror view) from \"Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation\". The pope could be Paul III.
[4] – (bedpost [3] alludes to bedpost [4]): 1564, Redrawn segment of a print \"Ahasuerus consulting the records\" by Philip Galle (after Maarten van Heemskerck). The resemblance of [3] to the image [4] (the bedpost) was shown by the late Margaret Aston in 1994 in \"The King’s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait\" (p. 68). She also compared the bedpost to Heemskerck’s \"Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus\".")
16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.
Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).
#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII #EdwardVIandThePope
The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by #MargaretAston in 1994 (PhD thesis): "The King’s #Bedpost: #Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait"
#TheKingsBedpost | #HenryVIII | #EdwardVI | #Tudor | #ThomasCranmer | #Ahasuerus | #EdwardVIandThePope
https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/
