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Alice artist's work celebrated through the looking glass

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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20020318
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IMAGES that have delighted generations of children arrived in the North-East on Saturday as part of an Alice in Wonderland exhibition.

Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass will be at Durham Art Gallery, within the Durham Light Infantry Museum, until April 21.

Tenniel was working in London as a cartoonist for Punch magazine when he was asked to illustrate the books for Oxford mathematics don Charles Lutwidge Dodson, alias Lewis Carroll.

Once described as "the most delightful books for children ever written", they are ...

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