John Tenniel
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Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knig
Tenniel was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1842
Charles Stewart Parnell depicted as a vampire, menacing maiden Ireland
Caterpillar using a hookah. An illustration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chapter 12: Alice's evidence. MS Eng 718.6 (12) Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820–1914. Studies for illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: drawings, tracings, c. 1864 from Houghton Library, Harvard University
Through the Looking-Glass
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford.
John Tenniel
…and became its chief cartoonist in 1864) and for his illustrations on the first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings remain the definitive depiction of the Alice characters, with comic book illustrator and writer…
Carroll, 1863 photograph
Alice meeting Tweedledum (centre) and Tweedledee (right)
The Red King dreaming
The White Knight accompanied by Alice