Pictorial Humpty Dumpty
Book
1843 (published)
1843 (published)
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Panorama format, continuous strip-etching illustrating the nursery rhyme preserved inside and affixed to an oblong pictorial folder with the verse printed in English and French on upper cover. Verse printed in English and French; inside are additional translations of the nursery rhyme in Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, Greek, German, and Italian.
Object details
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| Title | Pictorial Humpty Dumpty (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed book in panorama format, with etched illustrations reproduced as lithography. |
| Brief description | Pictorial Humpty Dumpty. "Aliquis fecit." London: Tilt & Bogue, 1843. NAL Pressmark: 60.Y.Box V (xviii). Continuous strip-etching illustrating the nursery rhyme. |
| Physical description | Panorama format, continuous strip-etching illustrating the nursery rhyme preserved inside and affixed to an oblong pictorial folder with the verse printed in English and French on upper cover. Verse printed in English and French; inside are additional translations of the nursery rhyme in Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, Greek, German, and Italian. |
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| Gallery label | Carroll looked to nursery rhymes for the story of Through the Looking-Glass. We know that his family owned a copy of Aliquis’ Pictorial Humpty Dumpty, and this was probably his source for this character. In Looking-Glass, Humpty Dumpty is a rude and self-important character, who shows Alice that a word doesn’t always mean what it means, but ‘just what I choose it to mean’.
[Group label for Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser]
Accompanied by E.2846-1901(2019) |
| Other number | 60.Y.Box V (xviii) - NAL Pressmark |
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| Library number | 38041968035725 |
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| Record created | October 15, 2019 |
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