"Whenever the butcher was by the Beaver kept looking the other way," Illustration to "The Landing," chapter I from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll

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"Whenever the butcher was by the Beaver kept looking the other way," Illustration to "The Landing," chapter I from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll

Photographer: Unknown English, 19th century
Henry Holiday (English, 1839–1927)
Author: Lewis Carroll (English, 1832–1898)
Publisher: Macmillan and Company

1876

Medium/Technique Photographic reproduction of a drawing for a wood engraving

Dimensions Image: 8.4 x 12.3 cm (3 5/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 11.1 x 15.1 cm (4 3/8 x 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund

Accession Number55.2306

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Photography

ClassificationsPhotographs

Description"Whenever the butcher was by the Beaver kept looking the other way," Illustration to "The Landing," chapter I from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll. London: MacMillan and Company, 1876, p.10

ProvenanceHarold T. Hartley, England (b. 1851 - d. 1943); Sir Harold Hartley, London, England (b. 1878 - d. 1972); 1955, purchased from Hartley by the MFA . (Accession Date: April 14,1955)