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John Tenniel (1820 – 1914)


British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, most famous for his association with Lewis Carroll and his works.
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John Tenniel
Tenniel, who had started as a child prodigy, nearly ended as one. When a boy, fencing with his father, he lost the sight of of one eye. But the remaining one saw more than most.
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Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.
Tenniel
A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.




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Tenniel is the man.
Tenniel John
Tenniel raised the political cartoon to a new level of dignity and importance.
John Tenniel quotes
How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.
John Tenniel
Mr. Tenniel is the only artist, who has drawn for me, who resolutely refused to use a model, and declared he has no more needed one than I should need a multiplication-table to work on a mathematical problem!
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The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.
Tenniel
It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since.
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