A people who like Alice in Wonderland? Virtually all. I don't know the person who has not read the book at least once, or view the famous carton Disney. When I was little, at the age of 10 years approx., gave me the book for Christmas, Since I always liked so much read, as far as I remember, I now ventured to read. Frankly I don't think I've understood a lot, but I remember the days at school I walked around all puffed up with the nose of my new literary discovery. To whom I asked replied that in fact the story of Alice not ended as in cartoon, but there was a nice piece that was missing through the mirror!

It is obvious that I needed a good reading with at least some’ more knowledge to understand the myriad implications, cultural and not, scattered in every corner of the two stories. The opportunity I was given just recently when I saw at the library a paperback version with black&white illustrations&at the modest sum of 8,80 €. The coloured cover is Arthur Rackham while the interiors drawings are of the first historic illustrator Sir John Tenniel.

However, Alice and her adventures have always been interested in the general public and often I wondered which have been throughout history, its various transformations. How has been represented by artists who have ventured in the enterprise?

Sir John Tenniel

This austere English Lord, with those nice mustache by sparrowhawk, by profession was precisely the Illustrator, but his specialty was the political satire prominently in the major magazines of the period as Punch. This artist was particularly appreciated for its humorous vein and his great ability to relate the facts in the summary so that he procured a number of collaborations as an illustrator of books not just for kids. His illustrations of the adventures of Alice are the most famous in the world, not only because the first, but also because they were playing with the technique of carving wooden (wood engraving) which in fact allows better management of more details. The most famous are reproductions here.

Maria L. Kirk

A Lady Illustrator at the Court's tiny Alice. When in 1907 expired copyrights to reprint book publishers began the race to grab a version of the famous novel. From here onwards the different declinations history with illustrations and different translations depending on publishing house. The second illustration is a woman and is our Mary which has the task to differentiate from the historic first Illustrator and create a different girl. It succeeds very well! The second Alice has brown hair, red cheeks that make it a sweet and a beautiful yellow dress with apron coords. The gossip? It seems that over time the illustrators have drawn its inspiration from their children's genetic makeup. Her illustrations here.

Arthur Rackham

The history of this English Illustrator is so classic, maybe a bit’ linear in everyday life but certainly rich in artistic emotions more worthy black envy. he was particularly fond of Botany and ’watercolours, but then he became journalist and illustrator at the newspaper Westminster Budget. In his collection of outstanding artistic collaborations such as the famous children's books Peter Pan, Tales of Brothers Grimm and of course Alice. What about this little Alice? Seems like a teeny English more ruffled of previous, I don't know if is more credible all serious and get sorted as previous, or with the wrinkled suit and ruffled hair typical of souls in caos. His illustrations are here.

Bessie Pease Gutmann

This Alice just I don't like. Has the air plump and giddy and looks really much smaller age should have. However, it is worth to mention its author who seems to be one of the world's most famous illustrators for her subjects: i children. To begin with, unlike the authors mentioned above, she was American from Philadelphia where she studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (which already gives an idea of ​​the climate in which we find ourselves). To end with her vast experience in the field of illustration that includes private collections, magazines and advertising. To get a culture about go here.

Mabel Lucie Attwell

With this illustration we return to England and back to Alice with red hair and two little ponytails’ a bit ruffled’ isn't it. Beautiful, stylized and acquarellabile. The author draws on her young daughter, named Peggy, to give a face to the small Alice Liddell. Her images are famous as those of American fellow and it was easy to see on magazines and not, postcards, advertising of any kind for children, boxes of toys, greeting cards. A true celebrity in the field so that her partnerships with publishers for books on children is wasted. Here her works.

Albert Edward Jackson

Alice returns blonde, but with the line in the middle and a plait to envy. But for that dress… nothing to do! This london based illustrator worked in children's illustration on several occasions just showing some of the classic texts that thousands of children have read since then until recently, why now they read Moccia. Here a bit of culture in this regard.

Gwynedd M. Hudson

Alice remains blonde with hair neatly collected and a delicious white fringing of blue dress. Face clean and tidy, small hands and air of good-old daughter home. The images are a bit overwhelming and the colors are very dark but rich in details that enrich the scene. So you like sees Gwynedd M. Hudson. You want to see other works? Go here.

Jessie Willcox Smith

This illustration comes from Usa and precisely from Philadelphia, as Bessie Pease Gutmann, and began her studies as a teacher for asylum. It is fortunate for us that she discovered a natural propensity for drawing because she gave us some of the illustrations, in particular, for children the most beautiful I've ever seen. She, too, like his predecessors, has addressed books for kids, including an illustrated edition of Heidi, but also of advertising posters and a regular column on Ladies Home Journal. The version of this artist of Alice seems to be that they were inspired by the Disney imagineers. Unfortunately and sadly I could only find a picture of Alice, in reality this is not a mere illustration but of collage of caracters who performed.

These are just some of the artists who competed in the artistic representation of a young girl really existed and made immortal. There are many others and so many other versions, declinations, expressions of the same thing.
And in the future? What will become of little Alice?