Nose Flip

I use the Gimp for image comparisons related to Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Most comparisons are static, but here a little animation done with the Gimp helps to show how Henry Holiday played with art from other artists. When illustrating the book, Henry Holiday didn't just copy art. This example shows that he had discovered, that you can flip a "nose" in the etching The Image Breakers (c. 1567) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder in a way that it turns into another nose. And that flipped nose then became the nose of the "Banker" in Carroll's tragicomedy.