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Print

1863 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dalziel Brothers (engravers (printmakers))
Sir John Tenniel (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Illustration to the Ingoldsby Legends.

Object details

Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Wood engraving
Printing Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Wood-Engraving
Brief description
Illustration by John Tenniel Illustration for The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirths and Marvels. Wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers, 1863.
Physical description
Illustration to the Ingoldsby Legends.
Gallery label
(2019)
Carroll wanted an illustrator who could combine skill and delicacy with a flair for the absurd. John Tenniel was by then well-known and his designs for The Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of myths and ghost stories, brought together drama with comic mastery. One reviewer of the book noted that he ‘succeeded admirably in depicting… the double character – the humour and seriousness, all in one’.

[Label for Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser]
Object history
Illustration to 'Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there' by Lewis carroll, 1872.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.5471-1904

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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