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

Several of the Alice illustrations were changed during the production process, and alterations are recorded in the Dalziel albums. Some examples are shown in this exhibition. In Through the Looking-Glass, several proofs show Alice with a skirt like those worn by the fictional queens (Alice becomes a queen during the novel). However, it was decided to insert a plug of wood and reinstate her own distinctive dress throughout. One example is shown here. Perhaps the rejected skirt had made her look too much like one of the toy chess pieces, rather than a unique human girl.
Dalziel after John Tenniel, illustration for ‘Queen Alice’, 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 nos. 675-6.
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