Thursday 16 May 2019

oldpainting:
“ Adelaide Claxton, Wonderland, 1860s-70s
Adelaide Claxton (fl. 1860s–1890s) was a late 19th century British painter, illustrator, and inventor.
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Fellow carrollians, this was the cover on the first edition of Alice I ever owned, aged...

Adelaide Claxton, Wonderland, 1860s-70s

This was on the front cover of the first Alice edition I ever owned, aged seven. 

I think this illsutration is meant to represent a Victorian reader of Carroll's novel. If you look very closely, the book the girl is reading is entitled "Strange dreams" which being dream narratives, Carroll's Alice novels certainly are!