Illustrations for "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"

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Illustrations for "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" are John Tenniel’s iconic Victorian-era drawings that visually define Lewis Carroll’s sequel to "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" and its fantastical characters.

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instanceOf Victorian illustration
book illustration series
artisticPeriod 19th century
artMovement Victorian art
basedOn "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"
basedOnAuthor Lewis Carroll
commissionedBy Lewis Carroll
commissionedFor children's novel
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator John Tenniel
depicts Alice
Humpty Dumpty
Jabberwock (as decorative illustration)
linked to: Jabberwock

Red King
linked to: The Red King

Red Queen
linked to: The Red Queen

Tweedledee
Tweedledum
White Knight
White Queen
depictsSceneFrom "Jabberwocky" poem
banquet in the final chapter
chessboard motif of the Looking-Glass world
garden of live flowers
railway carriage scene
wool shop and boat scene
firstPublishedIn first edition of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"
genre book illustration
fantasy illustration
hasPart chapter headpiece illustrations
frontispiece illustration
full-page plates
illustrationStyle black-and-white illustration
detailed line drawing
influenced 20th-century children's book illustration
later Alice in Wonderland illustrators
languageOfWork English
medium wood-engraved line illustration
notableFor defining the visual appearance of Alice
iconic representation of Victorian fantasy
originalPublisher Macmillan and Co.
partOf visual tradition of the Alice books
printingTechnique wood engraving
publicationYear 1871
relatedWork Illustrations for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
sameIllustratorAs Illustrations for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
targetAudience children
general readers of fantasy literature
visualizes chess allegory of the novel

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John Tenniel notableWork Illustrations for "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"