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Carroll's "Underground" vs Tenniel's "Wonderland"
Below you may compare two different sets of "original" illustrations. The left hand column includes Carroll's own images from Chapter 3 of Alice's Adventures Underground, while the right hand includes images from the first printed edition of Chapter 5 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. There are only 5 sets of illustrations in these sections that perfectly align: the Caterpillar and the four "Father William" illustrations. It's easy to see how Tenniel was influenced by the author's vision of the tale. However, it also easy to see why Carroll's publisher insisted on Tenniel's drawings, rather than Carroll's own.
Lewis Carroll (1864) |
John Tenniel (1865) |
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"And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?" |
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 "Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door-- Pray, what is the reason of that?" |
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 "Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage to do it?" |
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 "Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?" |
 "Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?" |
Alice's Adventures Under Ground: A Facsimile by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Lewis Carroll. Facsimile of Carroll's original maunscript,1864. London: The British Library, 2008. |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co, 1865. |
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