Alice in Bumbleland

Tenniel regularly mined his own work for parody in the pages of Punch. In this cartoon, Alice becomes the conservative politician Arthur Balfour bumbling through a reading of the London Government Bill. Alice retains her own features here, but in the published version, her face becomes lined, and she squints at the paper through a pair of pince-nez.

John Tenniel (1820–1914)
Alice in Bumbleland
Drawing (watercolor over graphite on paper), ca. 1899
Private Collection. Photography by Graham S. Haber 2015.