“The Tolling Buoy” by Henry Holiday, 1839-1927

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The Tolling Buoy

Henry Holiday, artist

Joseph Swain, Woodengraver

1876

Final illustration for The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits

This was based on a sketch Holiday had previously drawn on a boat trip to Liverpool a year or so after his return from India in 1872.

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Bibliography

Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits. Illustrated by Henry Holiday with Engravings by Joseph Swain. London: 1876, Macmillan,

Henry Holiday 1839–1927. London: William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, 1989, cat. 42, 11.

Holiday, Henry. Reminiscences of My Life. London: Heinemann, 1914.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Sixties. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1928.

Suriano, Gregory R. The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 200. 256-57.

Tanis, James and John Dooley Eds. Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, A Centennial Edition. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, 1981, 244-46.

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