John Tenniel: The Lobster at His Toilet

Best known today as the illustrator for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' books, John Tenniel was the Victorian era's chief political cartoonist. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing ...more

Chronicles the career of Sir John Tenniel, best known for his illustration of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and for his cartoons published in "Punch". This biography examines the themes Tenniel used in preparing his cartoons and includes approximately 150 examples of his work. ...more

Thanks to the generosity of Harcourt Amory, a Harvard graduate and great collector of Carrolliana, the Houghton Library holds an indispensable collection of materials relating to Lewis Carroll's life, his work, and the production of his books. Tenniel's Alice explores the work of Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), the largely self-taught ...more

Sir Tenniel's career was a struggle between his responsiveness to popular taste and his sympathy with views of art that condemned that taste. In his satires of the medieval revival from the 1850s, Tenniel developed a purely visual historicist burlesque that parodied the revival but was also a genuine adaptation ...more