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...Dodgson drawings, though worlds away from the expert expressiveness of the famous illustrations by Tenniel, have a charm all their own. They summon an image of dear Dodgson as he sat back, pen in hand and collar askew, to beam at this lucky squiggle or that eager splodge and imagine how Alice would soon stare at it with huge believing eyes. The later Alice is a work of literature; the earlier a work of love...
Dodgson, I wish you would write out Alice's adventures for me." Two Men. Next day, on a train trip to London, Lewis Carroll drew up chapter headings for the book he originally called Alice's Adventures Underground. Illustrated by the great Sir John Tenniel, and expanded and rewritten, the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reached Alice exactly three years later. It was an immediate hit. and with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, earned Carroll an affluence he did not want and the fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted...
...Epilogue in the second part, is on the wrong track for too many others. He has too often costumed, not clothed, and--except for the fantastical Rumour--this just fails. Some of his soldiers wear heraldic outfits, which for some reason makes them look like figures out of Tenniel's illustrations for Alice. Glendower looks as if he might glow in the dark. Messengers arrive from arduous journeys looking neat and clean. In contrast to the uneveness of Armstrong's work is David Amram's uniformly fine music, highlighted by a charming Welsh song...
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...