Famous Illustration Artists Gallery

The Jabberwock

Vintage colour lithograph of The Jabberwock, from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel. Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realising that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verse on the pages are written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems, and reads the reflected verse of Jabberwocky

© duncan1890

Nineteenth century schoolmaster

A kindly-looking nineteenth century schoolmaster holding a Latin text book. From "R. Caldecott's Second Collection of Pictures and Songs" containing "The Milkmaid", "Hey Diddle Diddle", Baby Bunting", The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate", "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go", "Come Lasses and Lads", "Ride a Cock Horse...", "A Farmer Went Trotting...", "Mrs Mary Blaize" and "The Great Panjandrum Himself". Drawn by Randolph Caldecott; engraved and printed by E. Evans. Published by George Routledge & Sons, London & New York, c1885

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, a pipe and began to smoke

Vintage engraving of a scene from Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge. Then seating himself, under a spreading honeysuckle, and stretching his legs across the threshold so that no person could pass in or out without his knowledge he took from his pocket a pipe, flint, steel and tinder-box, and began to smoke. Illustrated by Fred Barnard

© of Duncan P Walker