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Influences
1media/The maiden said, Be still, dear little fawn, and I will never forsake you.jpg2021-08-03T14:22:04+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f120plain642021-12-22T17:25:03+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fExplore the Collection IndependentlyIconic and instantly recognizable, British illustrator John Tenniel’s tubular Alice laid the foundation for generations of artists to alter images of human beings to convey their impression of an author’s imaginary world. Some artists, such as Charles Robinson, took Tenniel’s image to the extreme of a snake-like head. Others, such as Rackham, deviated from Tenniel and created a new Alice whom people could love. A master of black and white illustration, George Cruikshank skipped along the fence between reality and imagination and influenced similar juxtapositions of the real, surreal, and completely fantastic in many of his successor artists, including Willy Pogány, Aubrey Beardsley, and Arthur Rackham. Walter Crane’s use of color and light in his Aesop’s Fables acknowledges the priority of reality in his artwork over imagination. At the same time, it is the jubilant mixture of exactitude of form with ebullient splashes of color that would find most favor among his successors. Even Beatrix Potter foreshadowed the movement to anthropomorphization of flora and fauna as she depicted Peter Rabbit leaning against a wall, feet crossed, and hand under chin, exactly as his human counterparts would have stood and ruminated.
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1media/The fairies have their tiffs with the Birds.jpg2021-08-03T14:23:59+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fThe Art of Arthur RackhamRebecca McNulty13plain2021-12-21T18:20:15+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Alice.jpg2021-08-03T15:16:11+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fAlice's Adventures in WonderlandRebecca McNulty7plain2021-11-16T08:18:26+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Beardsley.jpg2021-08-03T15:14:30+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fThe Art of Aubrey BeardsleyRebecca McNulty5plain2021-12-21T18:31:36+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Rapunzel.jpg2021-08-03T15:58:16+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fThe Art of Walter CraneRebecca McNulty5plain2021-12-21T18:31:49+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Cinderella and the Glass Slipper.jpg2021-08-03T15:58:05+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fThe Art of George CruikshankRebecca McNulty5plain2021-12-21T18:32:00+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Untitled, Rolleston and Pognany.jpg2021-08-03T15:14:18+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fThe Art of Willy PogányRebecca McNulty5plain2021-12-21T18:33:31+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Alice_thumb.jpg2021-08-02T16:03:45+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fAlice, RackhamRebecca McNulty5Lewis Carroll and Arthur Rackham, "Alice," from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: William Heinemann, 1907, 5 ⅞ in. x 3 in., 39h15246plain2021-12-21T18:57:05+00:00Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s LiteratureRebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/4.jpg2021-08-03T15:57:49+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fThe Art of Charles RobinsonRebecca McNulty4plain2021-12-21T18:33:38+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Cinderella and the Glass Slipper_thumb.jpg2021-08-02T20:03:28+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fCinderella and the Glass SlipperRebecca McNulty3George Cruikshank, "Cinderella and the Glass Slipper," from George Cruikshank’s Fairy Book, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1897, 5 ¾ in. x 4 ¼ in., 23h20894plain2021-12-21T18:57:37+00:00Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s LiteratureRebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Tenniel Alice_thumb.jpg2021-08-02T18:11:10+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fAlice, TennielRebecca McNulty3Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel, "Alice," from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: D. Appleton & Co., 1866, 6 in. x 2 ¼ in., 23h949plain2021-12-21T18:56:51+00:00Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s LiteratureRebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Rapunzel_thumb.jpg2021-08-02T20:06:35+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fRapunzelRebecca McNulty3Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, and Walter Crane, "Rapunzel," from Walter and Lucy Crane’s Household Stories, Macmillan & Co., 1882, 6 ¾ in. x 4 ¼ in., 23h9180plain2021-12-21T18:57:21+00:00Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s LiteratureRebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
1media/Jack_thumb.jpg2021-08-02T18:12:31+00:00Rebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20fCruikshank, Jack brings the Giant Prisoner to King AlfredRebecca McNulty2George Cruikshank, "Jack brings the Giant Prisoner to King Alfred," from George Cruikshank’s Fairy Book: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1897, 5 ¾ in. x 4 ¼ in., 23h20894plain2021-12-21T18:57:51+00:00Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s LiteratureRebecca McNulty65517d188dc9aba7b76d226a2dc4aefe35fae20f
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1media/Untitled, Rolleston and Pognany.jpg2021-08-03T15:14:18+00:00The Art of Willy Pogány5plain2021-12-21T18:33:31+00:00
1media/Alice_thumb.jpg2021-08-02T16:03:45+00:00Alice, Rackham5Lewis Carroll and Arthur Rackham, "Alice," from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: William Heinemann, 1907, 5 ⅞ in. x 3 in., 39h15246media/Alice.jpgplain2021-12-21T18:57:05+00:00Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
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