Pencil sketch of Knight and Dragon by John Tenniel

Public

Pencil sketch on paper showing an armoured knight killing a dragon with a lance in the countryside, with a road or river in the background. Signed with Tenniel's monogram. Verso includes detailed description of sketch. Tenniel was famous for providing the illustrations in the Alice books.

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 1 board ; 20.955 x 22.86 cm
  • 1 page; 8.255 x 11.43 cm
  • 1 card ; 10.16 x 13.335 cm
Additional physical characteristics
  • Sketch is mounted on old card; the two are matted on a board
Collection
  • 19th Century Manuscripts Collection
Provenance
  • For further information please contact Special Collections and University Archives.
Provider Genre Fonds title Date digitized
  • October 26, 2017
Technical note
  • additional metadata by Maggie Tan
  • Scanned using Plustek OpticsBook A300 scanner; 600dpi; no colour correction; cropped to remove colour bar using Photoshop CS5. Physical item part of Peter Lowens' personal collection, provided by him for digitization
DOI

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file details Tenniel pencil sketch (recto) 2020-11-13 Public
file details Tenniel pencil sketch (verso) 2020-11-13 Public