Children's Illustrations

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Lot 14
  • 14

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Alice Liddell seated beside a potted Fern. July 1860.
  • albumen paint
Hand-colored Albumen Print. Carroll Image No.613. Although there are 8 copies known of this photograph, this particular example Dodgson arranged to be hand-painted on top of his image for presentation to Alice Liddell, then age 8.  The image measures 5-1/4 inches H. 

Provenance

Sothebys LDN, 2001 “Alice” sale (lot 6).

Catalogue Note

Hand-colored albumen print depicting Alice Liddell seated beside a potted Fern. Carroll Image No. 613. One of 8 images known, which includes the small vignette cut-out at the end of Carroll’s Alice manuscript. Carroll arranged for the photograph to be colored for presentation to Alice Liddell.