Book Description
A comprehensive study of the illustrations that John Tenniel drew for Lewis Carroll's two "Alice" books; revised with six new chapters.
Author : Michael Hancher
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814214114
A comprehensive study of the illustrations that John Tenniel drew for Lewis Carroll's two "Alice" books; revised with six new chapters.
Author : Frankie Morris
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0718847857
Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books. In the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theatre, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and his fifty years with the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. Tenniel's countrymen thought his work would embody for future historians the 'trend and character' of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled. The biography is followed by three sections on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. For lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures. Morris also demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day, from the Eastern Question to Lincoln and the American Civil War, examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist who mythologized the world for generations of Britons.
Author : Lesley Sims
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 9780746099230
A collection of Lewis Carroll's famously quirky stories featuring Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Author : Arthur Rackham
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486446859
A stunning treasury of 86 full-page plates span the famed English artist's career, from Rip Van Winkle (1905) to masterworks such as Undine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Wind in the Willows (1939).
Author : Rodney K. Engen
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
"Here for the first time the traumatic account in full of Tenniel's troubled relationship with Lewis Carroll is set out, alongside numerous unpublished examples of the Alice books illustrations as they were created. These illustrations were second in importance only to Tenniel's Punch career, which is examined by themes, social and historical issues and in the light of Tenniel's own troubled life. Finally the book contains a complete catalogue listing of all Tenniel illustrations for the serious collector, a list of all exhibited work and lists of cartoons and paintings hitherto ignored by students of Victorian art. The book is thoroughly illustrated with 150 black and white illustrations, many of which have never been published before, to give a complete picture of this supreme Victorian artist."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
ISBN :
Author : Michael Hancher
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9780814277331
"Lewis Carroll's two Alice books are among the most popular works of English literature thanks in part to the ninety-two indelible illustrations that John Tenniel drew for them. The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books situates their outstanding success in several historical contexts, including Tenniel's career as a leading artist for Punch magazine. This new edition also pays special attention to the material circumstances that enabled and conditioned the printing of the illustrations. The original twelve chapters have been revised and updated throughout, drawing on archival and published resources made available in recent decades. Six chapters are entirely new, explaining how Tenniel's drawings were professionally hand-engraved on wood blocks; how electrotype replicas were made from those blocks; and what problems could mar the commercial printing of such images--as notoriously happened in the first printing of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which Carroll suppressed on Tenniel's advice. Also considered for the first time here are the coloring of Tenniel's black-and-white illustrations, by Tenniel and other artists, and the extraordinary treatment later given to Tenniel's illustrations by the prestigious Limited Editions Club"--Dust jacket.
Author : Michael Hancher
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1473378109
Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice, immerse yourself in Lewis Carroll’s marvellous world, and meet the surreal and mysterious characters of Wonderland. First published in 1865, Alice in Wonderland is one of the most treasured children’s stories of all time. Discover Lewis Carroll’s brilliant verse and incredible characters as young Alice muddles her way through the curious fantasy world. This classic tale has been adapted many times for the page, stage, and screen, and is a universally-known story full of wonder and magic. Part of the Golden Age of Illustration series, this edition of Alice in Wonderland features over 200 illustrations from the likes of Arthur Rackham, Gwynedd M. Hudson, John Tenniel, W. Heath Robinson, Milo Winter, and many more. Each artist brings a different light and meaning to Carroll’s tale. From character to character, scene to scene, there is always something new to discover.
Author : John Tenniel
Publisher : Houghton Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
ISBN : 9780974396385
This book explores the work of Sir John Tenniel, the artist who illustrated the first editions of Lewis Carroll's best-known works. Although Tenniel and Carroll parted ways after publication of Through the Looking-Glass, the artist's designs fixed in the public's mind images of Carroll's characters that thrive down to the present day.