Beschreibung:

A beautifully hand painted interpretation of Lewis Carroll's children's classic after the original illustrations by Tenniel. The hand drawn images outlined in black on the first pane of glass with further coloured enhancement on the second piece of glass. All are sequentially numbered 1-31 with an additional A number. 29 Of the 32 are circular cut glass slides in mahogany cases except for numbers 16 and 16a which are in pine cases, the remaining three slides (24/25/26) are on square glass, mounted within the same mahogany casing. Wooden casing 17.7 x10cm, glass slides 8cm diameter. This intriguing set is a unique hand drawn and painted version after the classic Tenniel illustrations of Alice in Wonderland (although it also contains four images from Through the Looking Glass). The slides numbered 24/25/26 depict the Walrus and the Carpenter and appear to be Tenniel's printed image, and number 30 shows the Hatter in jail, (from The Looking Glass) but n.30 is an original drawing as the rest of the set. Most interesting is the inclusion of a crocodile on slide n.5, which is not illustrated by Tenniel in his version, but appears to have been painted for the set and must relate to the poem "How Doth the Little Crocodile" that Alice recites in chaper 2. The frontipiece on the first slide is also an original image. The artist is unknown but the quality of the painting is excellent and it is intrigung to think why this set was created when commercially printed versions (such as lot 6) were available to buy. Such was the popularity of Carroll's classic and we can postulate that perhaps this is an early set made before the printed versions were more widely available and as such is extremely unusual.