{"id":609,"date":"2020-02-10T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/?p=609"},"modified":"2020-04-23T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T11:21:15","slug":"politics-in-wonderland-sir-john-tenniel-at-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/2020\/02\/10\/politics-in-wonderland-sir-john-tenniel-at-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics in Wonderland: Sir John Tenniel at 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 February \u2013 20 March 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Curated by Jo Baines and Tom Kennett (Special Collections &amp; Archives)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2020\/02\/blog-image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-610 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2020\/02\/blog-image-1-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"John Tenniel's original illustration of Alice being attacked by the pack of cards (left) alongside a political cartoon by Nicholas Garland depicting Margaret Thatcher as Alice being assailed by 'world markets' (right).\" width=\"625\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2020\/02\/blog-image-1-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2020\/02\/blog-image-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2020\/02\/blog-image-1-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2020\/02\/blog-image-1-624x441.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition marks the bicentenary of the birth of illustrator and political cartoonist Sir John Tenniel (1820\u20131914) on 28 February.<\/p>\n<p>For almost 40 years, Tenniel was the chief political cartoonist for\u00a0<em>Punch<\/em>\u00a0magazine, a Victorian publishing institution, producing classics of the genre such as \u2018Dropping the Pilot\u2019. Today, however, Tenniel is chiefly remembered for the illustrations he provided for Lewis Carroll\u2019s ever popular and strange tales\u00a0<em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0(1865) and\u00a0<em>Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There<\/em>\u00a0(1871).<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition celebrates Tenniel\u2019s contribution to political cartooning in his own work for\u00a0<em>Punch<\/em>\u00a0and in the enduring influence his\u00a0<em>Alice<\/em>\u00a0illustrations have had on subsequent generations of political cartoonists. The exhibition features original cartoon artworks, cuttings and publications from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoons.ac.uk\/\">British Cartoon Archive<\/a>\u00a0by cartoonists including Nicholas Garland, Vicky, Strube and E H Shepard.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition accompanies a production of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/university-of-kent-cecilian-choir-alice-in-wonderland\/\"><em>Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Dream Play<\/em><\/a>, to be performed on Friday 21 February by the University Music department.<\/p>\n<p>First performed in 1886, written by Henry Savile Clarke and with music by Walter Slaughter, the \u2018dream play\u2019 was overseen and authorised by Carroll himself, and was the only adaptation to be made with his approval. The production features some of Tenniel\u2019s illustrations projected onto the stage, evoking the original atmosphere of the novel brought so vividly to life by Tenniel\u2019s quirky, characterful images. Tickets are available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/university-of-kent-cecilian-choir-alice-in-wonderland\/\">Gulbenkian website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 February \u2013 20 March 2020 Curated by Jo Baines and Tom Kennett (Special Collections &amp; Archives) This exhibition marks the bicentenary of the birth of illustrator and political cartoonist Sir John Tenniel (1820\u20131914) on 28 February. For almost 40 years, Tenniel was the chief political cartoonist for\u00a0Punch\u00a0magazine, a Victorian publishing institution, producing classics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,157292],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}