{"product_id":"artist-of-wonderland-9780718894603","title":"Artist of Wonderland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll''s Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era''s chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel''s life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoon, and illustrated books.From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theatre and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and fifty-year relationship with the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humourist revealed in his drawings. There follow three parts on Tenniel''s work, in which Morris examines Tenniel''s methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorris has almost certainly looked at every bit of art (extant and available) that Tenniel produced. Many of the theses advanced along the way are fresh and in some cases unprecedented. . . . The book can claim to be the standard work on Tenniel. Richard Maxwell, Yale University, editor of The Victorian Illustrated Book  Wonderfully, Dr Frankie Morris has written a fine, true and highly readable biography of Sir John Tenniel, the great nineteenth-century cartoonist. Here for the first time, we have a splendidly serviceable analysis, well illustrated, of Tenniel's cartoons as instruments of political persuasion. Morris also offers many fresh and surprising insights into the Tenniel-Carroll relationship and the Alice illustrations. Draper Hill, author of Mr Gillray, The Caricaturist Frankie Miller has done us a great service in this book. If you are interested in John Tenniel you have a thorough biography, likewise, if you are interested in the magazine Punch, not quite from its inception on 17th July 1841, but through to the end of that century. The development of print technology as used by the magazine through the last half of the 19th century is well covered. Romp through British history, at home, in foreign fields and other major international events. But most of all look at Tenniel's collaboration with Carroll in the Alice books, which you'll want to read again, with Miller close at hand. Stewart Rayment in Interlib, Journal of the Liberal Internacional British Group,n.6, pp 21-23, 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Preface Introduction PART 1. Biographical Sketch PART 2. Methods and Modes PART 3. Enchanting Alice PART 4. The Punch Cartoons Appendix Notes Index","brand":"James Clarke \u0026 Co Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736178012503,"sku":"9780718894603","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/artist-of-wonderland-9780718894603","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}