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Gentler and more elegant were the satires of such famed Victorian humorists as George du Maurier and Sir John Tenniel. Their Punch drawings of crinolined damsels and young men in cutaways had quietly chided a more prosperous and conservative...
...resemblance between John Tenniel's famous depiction of the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Matsys' painting [TIME, Jan. 26] ... is undeniable, but Tenniel need not have seen the Matsys painting in order to have achieved his remarkable (and delightful) Duchess, as he may possibly have had access to a crayon caricature by Leonardo da Vinci which is in the collection at Windsor Castle...
Victorian England produced fuzzy, sentimental painting, and a lot of sharp and funny drawing. The drawing has lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John Tenniel, are the subjects of three books published last week in England (by Art & Technics Ltd.). U.S. readers, familiar with only one string of each artist's bow (like Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland), will find the drawings a wonderland of surprises...
...Tenniel was just the man to take Doyle's place. "If I have my own little politics," he once murmured, "I keep them to myself and profess only those of my paper." The Victorians most admired Tenniel for his illustrations to romances like Lalla Rookh and The Silver Cord, which today seem absurdly overemphatic. Tenniel's cartoons were something else again, his sharp jabs to the funny bone contrasted tellingly with the roundhouse rights of Punch's rivals. If his cartoons were not invariably from the heart, they always, like Tenniel's Alice illustrations (and like...
...hideous Flemish masterpiece, newly acquired by London's National Gallery, looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...