Sir John Tenniel: Aspects of His Work

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994 - Art - 187 pages
This study deals with the early works of the influential illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, and with the ways in which the great debate of the 1840s in favor of the creation of an English school of history painting manifested itself in his art. Indeed, the historicist revival would be the driving force behind virtually all of his artwork throughout the whole of his life, including the work by which he is best known, his illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

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Contents

The Spirit of Justice
25
The Competitions
29
The Spirit of Justice and the Critics
31
The Iconography of Reform
35
Art and Institutions
48
From Reform to Empire
54
British Valhalla
63
From Pretense to Parody
64
The Nature of Satire
108
From Punch to Alice The Tradition of Satire
114
Punch Shakspeare
122
Satire and Childrens Illustration
138
Alice and the Popular Tradition
143
Alice and the Tradition of 1840s Satire
153
The Final Years
164
Notes
168

John Tenniel and the Language of Satire The Evangel of Common Sense
73
Mr Punch and the Pope
75
The Eglinton Tournament
89
The Tournament
95

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