Lot 302
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[Carroll, Lewis]--Riddell, Chris

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Description

  • [Carroll, Lewis]--Riddell, Chris
  • Ten characters from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Paper, pencil
280 by 190mm (average), pencil drawings on 10 sheets, each signed lower right

Catalogue Note

The characters represented comprise: Alice, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Caterpillar, the March Hare, the Carpenter, the Walrus and the Mad Hatter. Chris Riddell, the British illustrator, writer and a political cartoonist for The Observer is the first ever triple winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. In 2015 he was appointed the UK's Children’s Laureate. His introduction to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in Puffin Classics in 2008.