"The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths " from Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871) John Tenniel references The Promenade on Horseback (1868) by Edgar Degas?

 

 

 leading from

Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice stories by John Tenniel

and

Alien: HR Giger's Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics references "Adoration of the Magi" (1503 approx) by Albrecht Dürer via "The Promenade on Horseback" (1868) by Edgar Degas via "The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths" from Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871) by John Tenniel via"Job and the Judgement of Paris" (1966) by Ernst Fuchs?

 

 

 

a) "The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths " from Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871)

John Tenniel 

 

Based on the verse of the Jabberwocky poem:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe."

 

In the story, the character Humpty Dumpty mentions that:

 

1. "A “rath” is a sort of green pig".

 

2. "The “toves” are something like badgers—they’re something like lizards—and they’re something like corkscrews."

 

3. "And a “borogove” is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round—something like a live mop."

 

 

 

 

b) The Promenade on Horseback (1868) by Edgar Degas

 

 

 

 

c) A rider on a horse along with the pathway ahead becomes the tove.

 

 

 

 

d) Here the horse with rider becomes the rath

 

 

 

e) The man on horseback on the far right becomes the borogove bird

 

 

 

f) The rider on a horse with the horse's head becoming the back and right shoulder of the tove.

 

 

g) The horse's head and the side of the pathway that becomes the back of the tove and the tail

 

 

h) Here the rear of the horse becomes the body of the tove.

 

 

i) The woman on horseback becomes the pillar like stand for the sundial while the rear of the horse becomes the wavy tail of the animal.