by Henry Holiday by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder
Segments from prints
[left] by Henry Holiday (mirror view, from
The Hunting of the Snark,1876) and
[right] by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (
Allegory of Iconoclasm, around 1567).
In the "mouth" of Gheeraerts' "head" a praying priest is depicted. The shape of the priest also is visible in the "mouth" of Holiday's vanishing "Baker"
When quoting shapes from Gheerarts' etching (and from other sources), Holiday's engraver Joseph Swain must have played an important role. Carving a shape into a print block yields a mirrored print of that shape. The segments on the left side are displayed in mirror view.
I low pass filtered (blurred) all segments in order to focus on the resemblance of the larger structures.
This was my 1st finding in December 2008. I made this image in 2010.