CALLIGRAPHY, Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. Wall art. Removable art sticker. 12"x17".
Can be affixed to the wall or most surfaces. Satin finish. No framing needed. Can be removed and repositioned.
The original was written in gouache with a steel nib on watercolor paper.
Copyright watermark will not appear on your print.
Alice in Wonderland created imaginative worlds in which children could let their minds roam free. The result was a style of writing that simultaneously embraced nonsense and logic.
Without the curiosity, fantasy, and downright silliness of the Alice books, children's literature might not have branched out into the world of the imagination. Wonderland paved the way for many of the books that children and adults enjoy today – The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Harry Potter series, the Chronicles of Narnia, and so on.
The author of the Alice books, Lewis Carroll (the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a shy math professor at Oxford. To entertain three of his favorite “child-friends,” he began telling the stories that eventually developed into the Alice books.
The Cheshire Cat is famous for its ability to appear and disappear at will and for its enormous grin. In fact, sometimes the entire Cat disappears, leaving only the grin behind. The most important thing the Cat does is tell Alice that everyone in Wonderland is crazy – even her.
One popular approach to Alice has been to read it as a political alry, with Wonderland a symbolic England, ruled tyrannically by the Queen of Hearts, who of course would correspond with Queen Victoria. The extreme violence assigned the “aristocracy” of Wonderland (the Duchess and the Queen) as well as the ridiculous mangling of justice in the Trial (“Sentence first, then verdict”; and indeed, the British justice system at the time was in buying shambles) are both often used as evidence that Alice belongs perhaps more to the genre of Political Satire than even Carroll realized.
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Product code: Calligraphy, buying Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. Wall art. Removable art sticker. 12"x 17".