Tenniel, John, illus.

Original pencil drawing (6  7/8 x 4 11/16 in,; 174 x 120 mm) tipped to heavier card stock (9 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.; 240 x 170 mm) being the last drawing in Through the Looking Glass which depicts Alice at home grasping the black kitten in one hand and the chess piece of the (Red) Queen in the other while Dinah (the mother cat) grooms her white kitten Snowdrop,  initialed by Tenniel in the lower left corner; light toning. Together with: Calling card with purchase information on blank verso found on the back of the original frame.

Alice Parsons Millard (purchase note dated 27 February 1924 on back of original frame) — Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vanderveen Struby (bought from Alice Parsons Millard, 27 February 1924, purchase note written on a calling card) — by descent through the family

Rodney Engen, "Sir John Tenniel and Lewis Carroll," in An Exhibition from the Jon A. Lindseth Collection of C. L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll (New York: Grolier Club, 1998), pp. 35-38

Original pencil drawing (6 7/8 x 4 11/16 in,; 174 x 120 mm) tipped to heavier card stock (9 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.; 240 x 170 mm) being the last drawing in Through the Looking Glass which depicts Alice at home holding a kitten in one hand and the chess piece of the Queen in the other, initialed by Tenniel in the lower left corner; light toning. Together with: Calling card with purchase information on blank verso found on the back of the original frame.
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At the conclusion of the book, Alice confronts her mischievous kitten with the chess piece of the queen and demands that Kitty confess to turning into the Red Queen in her dream.  See the previous lot for more the history and techinique of producing the illustrations to Through the Looking-Glass.