Word: tenniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your Art spread and the Korean Mounted Horseman: I am sure that John Tenniel used it as a model for his illustration of the White Knight in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. It looks as though it has the "bunches of carrots and fire-irons and many other things" hanging from the saddle...
...John Tenniel's (1820-1914) White Knight...
...Raoul Dufy. Children's books may not read any better than (or as well as) they did in the past, but they look better; the skilled artwork is generally better tied into the text and better printed than it was in the days of great illustrators such as Tenniel, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane and N. C. Wyeth...
...return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such a poignant mingling of psychological truth and natural mystery. Perhaps even more than Washington Irving's tale the pictures tell the weird swiftness of human life...
...Vision Remembered. The 19th century was a great age of illustration, as of literature, although the British writers of the time were inclined to ignore the fact. Lewis Carroll never reconciled himself to Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, which seem so right as to be almost inevitable. Tennyson, who did not care for art, was simply indifferent to the best efforts of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt to illustrate his poems. William Thackeray, Edward Lear and W. S. Gilbert were better pleased, for they illustrated their own work...