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:

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Creator

• Tenniel, John, 1820-1914

Subject

• Dragons in art
• Dragons
• Dragon slayer (Tale) in art

Language

• eng

Date created

• February 1, 1860

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• sketches

Fonds title

• Peter Lowens Collection

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

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/pzsc-vb42

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