The Original Illustrated Alice in Wonderland

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Mathematics and logic are central to Alice. [50] As Carroll was a mathematician at Christ Church, it has been suggested that there are many references and mathematical concepts in both this story and Through the Looking-Glass. [51] [52] Literary scholar Melanie Bayley asserts in the New Scientist magazine that Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland in its final form as a satire of mid-19th century mathematics. [53] Eating and devouring [ edit ] Lewis Carroll's characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are still some of the most popular in the world. Donald Glue, Alice and Looking Glass, Colorgravure Publications, Melbourne, Australia, no date (1949?). Author Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), was rather fussy about how his book and the illustrations would look, so he provided Tenniel with many details and instructions. L. Perry Curtis, book review: Sir John Tenniel: Aspects of His Work. Victorian Studies. Vol. 40, Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996. 168–171. JSTOR recovered 21 November 2010

The first person to illustrate the Alice stories was the author himself. Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dawson, first came up with the story in 1862 while on a river trip with his friends, the Liddell family. According to Carroll and the Liddell family, he told the story to their three daughters Lorina, Edith, and Alice as a way to pass the time. Later, Carroll wrote the story down and illustrated his own manuscript called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which he gave as a Christmas gift to Alice Liddell. The manuscript, along with Carroll’s original drawings of his whimsical fantasy world, stayed in Alice’s possession until her husband’s death in 1928, when she was forced to sell it for financial reasons. Hancher, Michael. The Tenniel illustrations to the ‘Alice’ books. The Ohio State Press, second edition, 2019.For the ‘The Nursery Alice’, 20 of Tenniel’s illustrations were enlarged, colorized, and some of them were even slightly redrawn. Among others, Alice’s dresses were drawn with less crinoline. Tenniel hand-colored them. Dalziel’s signature has been removed from all Nursery illustrations. Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18thed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.

Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne, illustrator of an edition from Julia MacRae Books, wins the Kurt Maschler Award. [97] Another "formal" means of training was Tenniel's participation in an artists' group, free from the rules of the academy that were stifling him. In the mid-1840s he joined the Artist's Society or Clipstone Street Life Academy, and it could be said that Tenniel first emerged there as a satirical draughtsman. [14] Early career [ edit ]

Alice in Wonderland 150th anniversary: 8 very different film versions". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022 . Retrieved 10 May 2023. A very small addition of the name of the new engraver (Bruno Rollitz) to Tenniel’s monogram, in four of the illustrations (Alice with the puppy, the Queen of Hearts confronting Alice in the garden, Alice overturning the jury box, and Alice with the shower of playing cards). Evelyn) Stuart Hardy, published by John F. Shaw (c. 1908). There are 8 illustrations but within 2 issues of the book (4 in one and a different 4 in another). There is also an undated edition from the same publisher with all eight illustrations. Lovell-Smith, Rose (2004). "The Animals of Wonderland: Tenniel as Carroll's Reader". Criticism. 45 (4): 383–415. doi: 10.1353/crt.2004.0020. S2CID 191361320. ProjectMUSE 55720.

Engaging the text side by side with the artwork yields a myriad of interesting tonal effects in both the words and the pictures. It's an entirely different approach to the notion of illustration. . . . This book succeeds in scratching the itch many admirers of Carroll and Dalí have felt for too long."—Megan Volpert, PopMatters

In 1959, three years before the publication of her gorgeous illustrations for The Hobbit and nearly two decades after her iconic Moomin characters were born, celebrated Swedish-speaking Finnish artist Tove Jansson was commissioned to illustrate a now-rare Swedish edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ( public library), crafting a sublime fantasy experience that fuses Carroll’s Wonderland with Jansson’s Moomin Valley. The publisher, Åke Runnquist, thought Jansson would be a perfect fit for the project, as she had previously illustrated a Swedish translation of Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark— the 1874 book in which the word “snark” actually originated— at Runnquist’s own request. Writing style and themes [ edit ] Symbolism [ edit ] Three cards painting the white rose tree red to cover it up from the Queen of Hearts (Coloured Tenniel illustration) The Duchess's lullaby, "Speak roughly to your little boy..."—a parody of David Bates' "Speak Gently" Carroll recorded in his diary on 29 March 1885, that twenty illustrations for The Nursery “Alice”‘are now being coloured by Mr Tenniel’, and by 10 July he was able to report that ‘Mr Tenniel has finished the coloured pictures for The Nursery “Alice”‘. This means the illustrations were done well in time, as Carroll only wrote the text for the Nursery Alice in 1888 ( Sibley). Robson, Catherine (2001). Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentlemen. Princeton University Press. p.137.

The introduction by Burstein . . . and Thomas Banchoff provides a valuable grounding in [Dalí's] interests and obsessions at the time the gouaches were created."— Library Journal Those of us enchanted by imaginative pop-up books— from an adaptation of The Little Prince to the life of Leonardo da Vinci to a naughty Victoriana— are bound to fall in love with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation ( public library) by pop-up book artist and paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Originally published in 2003 — three years after Sabuda’s equally enchanting adaptation of The Wizard of Oz and five years before his take on Peter Pan— the book is a kind of “Victorian peep show” version of the Lewis Carroll classic.

Tenniel’s and Carroll’s cooperation

Tenniel Close, a Bayswater street near his former studio, is named after him. [46] [47] Gallery [ edit ] Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (27 April 2015). The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Harvard University Press. doi: 10.4159/9780674287105. ISBN 978-0-674-28710-5. John Bradley, folio size illustrations of Alice as re-told by David Blair in "a young reader's edition", Courage Books imprint of Running Press, 1992 Jones, Jo Elwyn; Gladstone, J. Francis (1998). The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-67349-2. OCLC 60150544.