| Image title: | Alice in the Garden of Live Flowers |
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| Source: | Caroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There” (1871) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | alice, illustrations for children, flowers, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
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Alice (of Alice in Wonderland fame) is standing in the garden, where she is astonished to notice that the flowers (which have faces) can talk: This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle. “O Tiger-lily,” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I wish you could talk!” “We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily: “when there’s anybody worth talking to.” Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice—almost in a whisper. “And can all the flowers talk?” “As well as you can,” said the Tiger-lily. “And a great deal louder.” “It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know,” said the Rose, “and I really was wondering when you’d speak! Said I to myself, ‘Her face has got some sense in it, thought it’s not a clever one!’ Still, you’re the right colour, and that goes a long way.” “I don’t care about the colour,” the Tiger-lily remarked. “If only her petals curled up a little more, she’d be all right.” |
| Dimensions: | 72 x 83mm (2.8 x 3.3 inches) |
| Filename: | 029-the-live-garden-q75-416x500.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/g/029-the-live-garden-q75-416x500.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/g/pages/029-the-live-garden/ |
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| Engraver: | Dalziel |
| Artist: | John Tenniel (1820 – 1914) |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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