The Hunting of the Snark based on a draft by Lewis Carroll, the Snark was allowed to show up in an illustration by Henry Holiday, where it appeared in a dream of the Barrister. The illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" might contain pictorial references to the etching "The Image Breakers" by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, to William Sidney Mount's painting "The Bone Player" and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin's "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals". Upon the printing of the book on 29 March 1876, Carroll gave away eighty signed copies to his
The Man in a Case Man in a case" worked. The exact prototype of Belikov is unknown. Some contemporaries (including V.G. Bogoraz and M.P. Chekhov) considered that the teacher of Ancient Greek language and the inspector of the Taganrog gymnasium A.F. Dyakonov was a prototype of "the person in a case", others described the traits of character of Dyakonov disproving opinion of the first. So, P.P. Filevsky noted Dyakonov's generosity and wrote: "I positively claim that between "The man in a case" and A.F. Dyakonov there is nothing in common and no local color can be found in this work by A.P. Chekhov". The cost