V&A Alice in Wonderland Side Plates, for Dinner, Afternoon Tea or Breakfast, Fine China, 20.5 cm (8"), Set of 4

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Hancher, Michael. The Tenniel illustrations to the ‘Alice’ books. The Ohio State Press, second edition, 2019. A very small addition of the name of the new engraver (Bruno Rollitz) to Tenniel’s monogram, in four of the illustrations (Alice with the puppy, the Queen of Hearts confronting Alice in the garden, Alice overturning the jury box, and Alice with the shower of playing cards).

Stern, Jeffrey. “Lewis Carroll the Pre-Raphaelite”. Lewis Carroll Observed, by Edward Guiliano, Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. Cloth. Condition: Good. Margaret W Tarrant (illustrator). Large paper edition of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. Large paper edition of this classic children's tale by Lewis Carroll. Sadly the twenty-four coloured plates by Margaret Tarrant, famous English illustration and children's author known for her depictions of fairy-life children and religious subjects, were excised by a previous owner.?Dated via Jisc.?Uniform with 'The Sunshine Series' distinctive for its large size and the many dainty coloured plates by favourite children's artists. In quarter cloth binding over printed boards. Externally with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards lightly soiled. Minor tape repair to small closed tear lower margin p. 99, and to minor loss p. 175. Cutting featuring coloured Pooh illustration pasted to front free endpaper. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered to occasional leaf. Good. book.Make time for tea and delight you guests with our beautifully illustrated Truly Alice party range. Transform your home into a Mad Hatters tea party by hanging our teapot bunting on the walls or between trees, then add our oversized Alice in Wonderland decorations and photo props to feel like you have shrunk in size – just like Alice! Tenniel may even have added his own subtle references in the illustrations: read about the origins behind Tenniel’s illustrations. The making of the illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Demakos, Matt. Cut-Proof-Print. From Tenniel’s Hands to Carroll’s Eyes. Stuffing the Teapot Press, 2021.

It is suggested that he was inspired by paintings by his friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti (modeled by Annie Miller) and his friend Arthur Hughes. Carroll owned Hughes’ oil painting ‘Girl with Lilacs’ ( Stern).Garvey, Eleanor M. and W.H. Bond. Tenniel’s Alice. Drawings by Sir John Tenniel for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Harvard College Library and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. As of 25 April 1871, Carroll had still only received 27 pictures. Tenniel now hoped to complete them by July. This also did not work out, as the illustrations were not ready in time to have the book printed before Michaelmas. Therefore, it was decided that the book would be published right before Christmas 1871. Tumble down the rabbit hole with my favourite Collection of Alice in Wonderland. Would you like an adventure now, or shall we have tea first? Fine Bone China Perfect Plate hand decorated & hand edged in 22 carat gold for your delicious dinners, luscious lunches piled high with treats or why not hang & display on your wall? Wall displays of plates are a super simple to do & a great alternative to art. You can start with 1 plate design & add in different sizes or chose a selection of your favourite Intricate Ink Illustrations in different sizes to really catch your eye. When The Nursery “Alice” was printed, Carroll rejected the first copies because of the coloring of the illustrations. He wrote the following to Macmillan, on June 23, 1889: The Queen of Hearts’ dress is in fact not modelled after the outfit of a 19th century Queen of Hearts playing card, but the dress of a Queen of Spades card ( Hancher)! It is unclear whether Tenniel intentionally chose another suit as a model for the queen’s outfit.

Perfect plates are all Made In England & available in Small (16cm), Medium (21cm), Large (27.5cm) or Supersized (41cm). Use the Brass Plate Hangers in the appropriate size for your plate to make hanging super duper easy. When Alice meets the Cheshire Cat sitting in a tree, he vanishes and reappears again at once. When Alice walks on, he reappears again on a branch. This time, he disappears more slowly, on Alice’s request. However, the picture of this slow vanishing shows the Cheshire Cat sitting in exactly the same tree as he was in when Alice met him before walking on. When it came out, Tenniel again was dissatisfied with the printing quality of the illustrations. Although Carroll suggested to Macmillan that the second batch of printed copies should be destroyed, this did not happen and no books were recalled ( Jaques and Gidders 53). Illustrations for ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’ We’re all mad here! In homage to Lewis Carroll's classic book, our Alice in Wonderland party supplies, decorations and tableware are designed to help you escape your everyday life and tumble down a rabbit hole of your imagination. Perfect for providing some inspiration for your next Tea Party, Alice in Wonderland party theme, Baby Shower or Mother's Day table. For the ‘The Nursery Alice’, 20 of Tenniel’s illustrations were enlarged, colorized, and some of them were even slightly redrawn. Among others, Alice’s dresses were drawn with less crinoline. Tenniel hand-colored them. Dalziel’s signature has been removed from all Nursery illustrations.Also, more than 150 electrotypes have survived and sometimes appear at auctions. It is very hard to determine for which editions they were actually used though ( Hancher 207). According to Lewis Carroll, Tenniel also drew the rattle the wrong way. In a letter to Henry Savile Clark, dating November 29, 1886, Carroll states that Tenniel had drawn a watchman’s rattle (used to sound an alarm) in stead of a child’s toy rattle. He was certain that the latter was meant in the old nursery rhyme ( Gardner 227). Hearn, Michael. “Alice’s Other Parent: Sir John Tenniel as Lewis Carroll’s Illustrator”. American Book Collector, May/June 1983. Author Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), was rather fussy about how his book and the illustrations would look, so he provided Tenniel with many details and instructions.

That doesn’t mean Tenniel’s illustrations were exactly what Carroll described they should be. Tenniel had quite a lot of freedom to give his own interpretation to the illustrations. On several occasions, Carroll was very much willing to accept the artist’s ideas, and in the illustrations the typical style of Tenniel is recognizable. Tenniel had some freedom in selecting the scenes to be illustrated ( Hancher), and when Tenniel complained about having to draw a Walrus and a Carpenter, Carroll was willing to change the characters of his poem for him.Carroll sent the completed galleys, including the Wasp incident, to Tenniel on 16 January 1871 for pasting up and illustrating. Demakos, Matthew. “Sketch-Trace-Draw. From Tenniel’s Hands to Carroll’s Eyes, Part 1”. Knight Letter, volume III, issue 4, no. 104, spring 2020. In chapter 1 we are told: “[…] she found herself in a long low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.” In Tenniel’s illustration of Alice and the White Rabbit running through this hall, no lamps are visible however. The influence Tenniel had on Carroll is illustrated by the fact that Carroll recalled the first edition of his book, only because Tenniel expressed dissatisfaction about the quality of the printing of the pictures. Also, Carroll dropped an entire chapter from his book on Tenniel’s suggestion.