John Tenniel

thumb|right|It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was a British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, most famous for his association with Lewis Carroll and his works. Quotes A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art. Refusing to illustrate a proposed chapter in Through the Looking-Glass, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146 It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since. Declining to illustrate a later book by Lewis Carroll, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146 M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003) Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife. Urging Carroll to shorten Through the Looking-Glass; p. 14 The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny. Of Carroll's essay Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing; p. 18 How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking. Of his knighthood; p. 18 Quotes about Tenniel Tenniel is the man. Sir Noel Paton, refusing to illustrate Through the Looking-Glass; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130 Mr. Tenniel is the only artist, who has drawn for me, who resolutely refused to use a model, and declared he has no more needed one than I should need a multiplication-table to work on a mathematical problem! Lewis Carroll to Gertrude Thomson, letter of 31 March 1892 Quoted in M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators (2003), p. 247 Tenniel raised the political cartoon to a new level of dignity and importance. Edward Hodnett, Image and Text (1982), p. 167 Tenniel, who had started as a child prodigy, nearly ended as one. When a boy, fencing with his father, he lost the sight of one eye. But the remaining one saw more than most. Harold Bloom, in an Introduction to a 2006 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 23 External links "John Tenniel (1820-1914)" by Edward Wakeling (March 2008) John+Tenniel John Tenniel 114 Tenniel Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by Sir John Tenniel John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass More about John Tenniel and the making of the illustrations for the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland books A collection of Tenniel's American Civil War-era illustrations Category:People from London Category:Cartoonists Category:1820 births Category:1914 deaths Category:Illustratorsjdewdydurrehcjfdjgjkhdswstuikdruiotrdyikrefjkhbebkddedjjdrfjesyhhydwxyhdtjkfwwghdjfjdurijdsfjdjfjkffjeeujeduryuudeyrjjdykhjjeuyrwsydyjdfftdujdrurudyrtyggjfrwwfdtgdhdjftyjhjjhjfjj