Sir john tenniel alice in wonderland
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The Tenniel Illustrations for Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 114 ***
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Sir John Tenniel
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. King and Queen inspecting tart in courtroom 2. White Rabbit checking watch 3. Alice finding tiny door behind curtain 4. Alice taking "Drink Me" bottle 5. Alice stretched tall 6. Giant Alice watching Rabbit run away 7. Alice in pool of tears 8. Alice with Mouse in pool of tears 9. Dodo presenting thimble 10. Mouse telling story to birds and Alice 11. Alice cramped in Rabbit's house 12. Alice's hand grabbing at Rabbit 13. "There goes Bill!" 14. Dog looking at tiny Alice 15. Alice meets the Caterpillar 16. Father William standing on head 17. Father William somersaulting in the door 18. Father William having eaten the goose 19. Father William balancing eel on nose 20. Fish and Frog servants 21. Cook, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, Baby, and Alice 22. Alice and pig baby 23. Alice speaks to Cheshire Cat 24. Cheshire Cat fading to smile 2•
It’s high time I write about THE most important illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, Sir John Tenniel. The first illustrator of Alice (although one could argue that Dodgson fryst vatten the first one), the one chosen by Carroll himself to bring his creation to life. In many ways, Tenniel, made the template for the hundreds of illustrators of Alice that came to follow, and were inspired by his design.
Why haven’t inom written about him yet, and why do so now? First of all, I don’t have an early edition of Alice in Wonderland. Famously, the extremely coveted and super rare 1865 true first edition, out in 2,000 copies, was withdrawn bygd Carroll, to Tenniel’s request, as he wasn’t pleased with the quality of the print. At his own expense, Dodgson aka Carroll, had them reprinted, and of this particular edition, only a handful remain (22 copies known to exist).
When inom go through antique book shops, inom always look for a forgotten kopia, a lost treasure, maybe an inscribed o
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Iconic images of wit and wonder, Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are as magical today as when first published a little over 150 years ago.
An amateur artist himself (and, by all accounts, something of an egoist), Lewis Carroll had originally intended for his own illustrations to accompany his extraordinary text of Alice’s tales, and it was not without delicate persuasion by the author’s friend of his artistic deficiency that Carroll sought out a professional draughtsman.
John Tenniel, lead cartoonist for the politically mischievous Punch magazine, had already established a reputation for classical precision in his sketches, in which humour, composition, and execution of the image were treated with equal respect. A keen reader of the publication, Carroll knew his work well, and before long the pair had agreed on a collaboration.
Initially, their working relationship was fractious. A stubborn Tenniel fo