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...important date in the development of Thomas Nast as an artist. That week Sir John Tenniel published a biting cartoon in Punch on the subject of the Alabama Claims* showing the U. S. as a bloated Falstaff demanding £400,000,000 from the bearded Prince of Wales, Edward VII, as the price of his love. Plump Tommy Nast raged at the subject, but admired the technique. A month later he replied with a full page in Harpers Weekly of an even fatter John Bull Falstaff, drawn in the same manner. In this adaptation of the Tenniel technique he thereafter...
...Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors-Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini...
...England, Lincoln was as harshly treated as at home. Punch printed grotesque caricatures of the "boor" by its greatest draughtsmen, John Leech and Sir John Tenniel, later famed for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrations. The magazine Fun carried a series of bitter drawings by Matthew Somerville Morgan, whose work has only recently been discovered by Lincoln authorities, purporting to show "Honest Abe" a thief, demagog and charlatan. But it was in the South the most galling pictures were drawn. One Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest...
...closely connected with book illustration, and Mr. Hofer is adding important examples of the best work in this line, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In the nineteenth century, there was a brilliant period, when books were being illustrated by Kate Green-away, Randolph Caldecott, Sir John Tenniel and Walter Crane. The Widener collection brought to Harvard a good assemblage of Miss Greenaway's work, while Tenniel is very well represented in the Lewis Carroll collection made by Harcourt Amory, '76, and given in his memory by Mrs. Amory and their children. The other two, Crane and Caldecott...
Another window contains the original drawings of Tenniel to illustrate "Alice in Wonderland. Among familiar faces may be seen "Father William", the "Mad Hatter," and the "Rabbit" as they first made their bows to the world...