Illustrated Interpretations of Wonderland Through Time

A soul stirring chronology of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from 1864 to the present day.

Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, has fueled the imaginations of creatives for centuries — inspiring Cookbooks, providing valuable life-lessons and even provoking insightful philosophical essays.

We are in awe of the sensible nonsense and cannot help but imagine the oddness of our own lives that have a tendency to parallel a journey down a rabbit hole.

1. The Original Manuscript of Alice in Wonderland with illustrations by John Tenniel (1864)

When thinking of Alice, most people will recall the iconic images by John Tenniel, but there are 10 more great renditions below...

2. Arthur Rackham’s Illustrations (1907)

“I cannot remember the time when I hadn’t a pencil in my hand and from the very first my bent was toward the fantastic and the imaginative” —Arthur Rackham

3. 24 Vintage Magic Lanterns from 100 Ideas that Changed Film (1910-1925)

4. Leonard Weisguard’s Bold Color Illustrations (1949)

5. André Pécoud Watercolour Paintings (1950)

6. Salvador Dali Illustrates Alice in Wonderland (1969)

7. Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Ralph Steadman (1973)

8. Lizbeth Zwerger’s Illustrations (1999)

9. Meg Hunt’s breath-taking tributes to her late father (2010)

10. Yayoi Kusama’ hallucinogenic expression of Alice (2012)

11. Aldous Massie’s Psychidelic Wonderland (2014)

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