You are Old Father William... from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
after Sir John Tenniel (London 1820 - London 1914)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
125 mm (Dia)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286095.1
Summary
Pen and ink on paper, You are Old Father William.... from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, after Sir John Tenniel (London 1820 - London 1914). One of a pair of circular pen and ink illustrations, copies of drawings made by Tenniel for Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland. Both are illustrations from the poem, 'you are old father William' and both have the verses which they illustrate written underneath. This one shows the young man with the old man standing on his head in a cornfield.
Marks and inscriptions
inscribed with verse from the poem
Makers and roles
after Sir John Tenniel (London 1820 - London 1914), artist