'Now what am I to do with this creature when I get home?'
Sir John Tenniel (London 1820 - London 1914)
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1907
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 4 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520816.21
Summary
A lantern slide, No.21 of a set of 41 printed glass lantern slides of Alice in Wonderland: in black from original book illustrations published by Macmillan & Co. The print is of Alice standing holding a pig, wearing a bonnet, in her arms. On the top edge is printed ' 21.'Now what am I to do with this creature when I get home?'.' . The print is circular surrounded by a square framewhich has a narrow brown paper edging. In the top left hand corner in a white semicircle, is printed 'Alice in Wonderland' In the top right hand corner in a white circle is 'no 21'. with a white triangle in the corner is a 'graphic ' Y' snake trade mark of York and Son, London; with the factory in Somerset. In the bottom left hand corner in a white semicircle, is printed 'By premission of Macmillan & Co '.
Provenance
The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Sir John Tenniel (London 1820 - London 1914), illuminator