The King's argument was that anything that had a head could be beheaded.
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 1520816.30
Summary
A lantern slide, No.30 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 the King talking to other Kings and Queens Card people, with the head of the Cheshire cat in the sky above. On the top edge is printed ' 30 The King's argument was that anything that had a head could be beheaded.' '. 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 30'. with a white triangle in the corner with 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 permission 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), illustrator