You have baked me too brown. I must sugar my hair".
Sir John Tenniel (London 1820 - London 1914)
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1907
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
81 x 81 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520816.35
Summary
A lantern slide, No.35 of a set of 41 printed glass lantern slides of Alice in Wonderland: in black from original book illustrations published by Macmillan & Co. "You have baked me too brown. I must sugar my hair". The print is of a lobster in front of a dressing table holding a hair brush. On the top edge is printed ' 35 ' You have baked me too brown. I must sugar my hair". The print is circular surrounded by a square frame which 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 '35'. 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
Part of 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