Alice shaking the White King — Illustrations for Through the Looking Glass by John Tenniel

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Alice shaking the White King

Sir John Tenniel

1871

Wood-engraving by Dalziel

Illustration for the first chapter of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass

"So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than the Queen, that she mightn't take his breath away. . . . She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made . . . 'Oh! please don't make such faces, my dear!' she cried out, quite forgetting the King couldn't hear her." [See comment below.]

For a fuller discussion of this early and uncharacteristically reduced illustration by Tenniel, see Shaking the Red Queen, and Alice finds the Red Queen. [Mouse over the text for links.]

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Last modified 22 October 2007