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Sir John Tenniel

Sir John Tenniel , 1820-1914, English caricaturist and illustrator. He became well known for his original and good-humored political cartoons in Punch, with which he was associated from 1851 to 1901. Tenniel is also known for his illustrations of Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh; Aesop's Fables; The Ingoldsby Legends; and, above all, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

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Tenniel, Sir John (1820–1914), illustrator, worked for Punch from 1850, and from 1864 became its chief cartoonist. His illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are perfect examples of the integration of illustration with text.

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