Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas - Softcover

Carroll, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8420636266 ISBN 13: 9788420636269

Publisher: Alianza Editorial SA, 1998

Synopsis

180pp , On the illustrator Sir John Tenniel :: ( February 28, 1820 February 25, 1914 ) was an English artist , born in London. He drew over two thousand cartoons and especially cartoons for Punch magazine in the second half of the nineteenth century, although he is best remembered for his work in illustrating Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass both works of Lewis Carroll ... in 1864 , Lewis Carroll was about to publish Alice in Wonderland . In January of that year, Carroll John Tenniel asked to make artwork libro.3 The latter is thought several months , until he agreed in April to illustrate the work with 34 bullets in return for a payment of £ 138 pounds . For illustrations , Tenniel received precise instructions of Carroll, to ensure that the illustrations reflected the world of work as the author imagined . Even Carroll gave a photograph of Mary Hilton Badcock girl to use her as a model for Alicia.4 not know if Tenniel accepted the proposal . On the one hand , so that you can see in the pictures , it seems so, because the Alicia that Tenniel drew is very similar to Badcock . But Conversely, Carroll wrote a letter suggests Tenniel ignored the recommendation : Mr. Tenniel is the only artist who has drawn for me, which has strongly rejected the use of a model, and told me not one needs more than what I need from a multiplication table to solve a mathematical problem. I venture to think that he was wrong , then drew several portraits of " Alice" completely disproportionate , head too big, and definitely too pequeños.5 feet Tenniel finished the first illustration in October 1864, and in May 1865 sent all the original ready . The first run of 2,000 copies and edited by Macmillan and Co. , was stored as objected Tenniel print quality . Carroll absorbed the expenses. In December of that year the work was printed again, and dated 1866. The book sold quickly , ensuring the passage of Tenniel history editorial.6 Publication turned out to be a

About this edition

• Publisher: Alianza Editorial SA
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 8420636266
• ISBN 13: 9788420636269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 181