You are Old Father William... from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
after Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
125 mm (Dia)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286095.2
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 illustration shows both men in an interior with old father WIlliam turning a backwards somersault.
Marks and inscriptions
inscribed with verse from the poem
Makers and roles
after Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914), artist