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Alice in Wonderland

Print
1970-1 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

At the end of the 1960s, disillusioned with London life, Peter Blake moved with his wife, artist Jann Haworth, and their daughter to Wellow, a small village near Bath. On the spring solistice of 1975, Blake and Haworth founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists with fellow artists Ann and Graham Arnold, David Inshaw and Annie and Graham Ovenden.

Blake said of the Ruralist mission:
Simply, our aims are the continuation of a certain kind of English painting; we admire Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Hardy, Elgar, cricket, English Landscape, the Pre-Raphaelites, etc… Our aims are to paint about love, beauty, joy, sentiment and magic. We still believe in painting with oil paint on canvas, putting the picture in the frame and hopefully, that someone will like it, buy it and hang it on their wall to enjoy it.

Blake’s Ruralist paintings are dominated by literary subjects drawn from English literature, particularly the works of William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleAlice in Wonderland (series title)
Materials and techniques
Screenprint on white paper
Brief description
Screenprint by Peter Blake from the series "Alice in Wonderland". Great Britain, 1970-1.
Physical description
Screenprint on white paper with crinkled edges, signed and numbered 3/100. Text is printed along the bottom of the image with excerpts from the original manuscript, featuring the Humpty Dumpty scene with Alice wearing a pale dress and reaching up to the figure seated on a wall. Toy-like houses and a skyline of tress make up the background.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 9.5in
  • Image width: 7.0125in
Production typeLimited edition
Credit line
Acquired from Leslie Waddington Galleries Ltd, London in 1972
Object history
This series of prints are from the suite made in 1970 illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland', reproducing watercolours made by the artist over about 2 years prior to printing. They were printed by Kelpra Studio, London, in an edition of 100.
Production
Printed in an edition of 100
Subject depicted
Association
Literary references
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Summary
At the end of the 1960s, disillusioned with London life, Peter Blake moved with his wife, artist Jann Haworth, and their daughter to Wellow, a small village near Bath. On the spring solistice of 1975, Blake and Haworth founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists with fellow artists Ann and Graham Arnold, David Inshaw and Annie and Graham Ovenden.

Blake said of the Ruralist mission:
Simply, our aims are the continuation of a certain kind of English painting; we admire Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Hardy, Elgar, cricket, English Landscape, the Pre-Raphaelites, etc… Our aims are to paint about love, beauty, joy, sentiment and magic. We still believe in painting with oil paint on canvas, putting the picture in the frame and hopefully, that someone will like it, buy it and hang it on their wall to enjoy it.

Blake’s Ruralist paintings are dominated by literary subjects drawn from English literature, particularly the works of William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.9-1972

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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