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Details: ※ https://snrk.de/faiths-victorie-in-romes-crueltie/#bm ※ https://snrk.de/knight-letter-100/ === upper image === Screenshot (2018) from the website of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0512-317 "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" (published by Thomas Jenner, c. 1630) is an anti-catholic print showing English Protestant martyrs standing around a fire. Immediately to the right side of the fire, Thomas Cranmer is depicted burning his hand. Depicted martyrs: (A) Thomas Cranmer holding his hand into the flames, (B) Hugh Latimer, (C) Nicholas Ridley, (D) John Hooper, (E) John Philpot, (F) John Bradford, (G) John Rogers, (H) Laurence Saunders; (I) Rowland Taylor, (K) Thomas Bilney, (L) Robert Ferrar, (M) Robert Glover. Curator's comments (2016): "Hind misdated this print c.1556 (see Hind I p.6 note 1). The actual date was discovered by Malcolm Jones in the Stationers Register, where it was entered on 6 March 1630 (see Arber IV p.196). The name Ghest is included among the martyred, but he has not been identified. This is one of a number of earlier prints used by Henry Holiday in his illustrations to Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, 1876 (information from Goetz Kluge, June 2016)" === lower image === Comparison (by Goetz Kluge) of the upper image to the the Illustration by Henry Holiday to the final chapter ("The Vanishing", https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#561) of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). In Holiday's illustration you can see something which looks like a "beak" which had snatched the Baker's hand. After rotating the "beak" by 120° counterclockwise, you can see a fire whith a hand reaching out from the flames. I think Holliday's Snark illustration is a pictorial reference to the "Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie" print where you can see Thomas Cranmer holding his hand into the flames. More: https://snrk.de/knight-letter-100/

In the Illustration by Henry Holiday to the final chapter ("The Vanishing") of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), a hidden depiction of Thomas Cranmer's hand in the flames can be found.

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