This was the first, rejected version of the illustration known as ‘Living Backward’, or the ‘Hatter in Prison’. It appears in the album as a flap; if you lift the flap you see the final illustration (no. 18).
Dalziel after John Tenniel, illustration for ‘Wool and Water’, 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. 648.
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