Dalziel after John Tenniel, illustration for ‘Shaking’, in Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

As Alice shakes the queen and finds she is actually the kitten, the hallucinogenic, unreal qualities of her vision are revealed. The perspective of these illustrations, in which we too see the queen, then the cat (see no. 23), implicate us in Alice’s way of looking; we cannot view these illustrations without making Alice’s weird way of seeing our own.
Dalziel after John Tenniel, illustration for ‘Shaking’, in Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (London: Macmillan, 1871). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVIII (1871), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.189, print no. 663.
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