A Great Huge Game of Chessdetails

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Image title: A Great Huge Game of Chess
Source: Caroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There” (1871)
Place shown: none
Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, games, chess, trees, greyscale, wallpaper, backgrounds
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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For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.

“I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!” Alice said at last. “There ought to be some men moving about somewhere—and so there are!” she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”

Dimensions: 76 x 50mm (3.0 x 2.0 inches)
Filename: 039-a-great-huge-game-of-chess-q75-500x337.jpg
Artist: John Tenniel (1820 – 1914)
Engraver: Dalziel
Scanner dpi: 2400
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