It is worth comparing this illustration to the mushroom that the caterpillar is sitting on in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (see section ‘Imagining Elsewhere’).
Dalziel, illustrations for W Robinson, Mushroom Culture (London: Frederick Warne, 1870). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVII (1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.188, print nos. 727-738. By Permission of the Trustees of The British Museum. All Rights Reserved © Sylph Editions, 2016