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Description
Framed drawing "Mabel, Alice" (signed CLD [C.L. Dodgson], March 1871) by Lewis Carroll [i.e., Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] of Mabel Price and Rose Price. Carroll is the author of Alice in Wonderland. ..."in ink with light pencil touches on an off-white 6.5 x 7 sheet... Dodgson sketches a youthful girl seated with a book in her lap, reading to a younger girl settled on the ground and leaning against her knee.... Handsomely cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 12 x 13.5. Light foxing and toning to borders (the image largely unaffected), otherwise fine condition. The subjects of this drawing are most likely the daughters of Bartholomew Price, a mathematician who taught and mentored Dodgson -- in fact, the Mad Hatter's nonsense rhyme, 'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at!,' allegedly refers to Price, who was affectionately known as 'Bat' by his friends. In an entry in Dodgson's diary for April 4, 1871, he mentions having begun the other day 'a picture of Mabel and Rose Price.' Between their ages -- nine and five, repectively --- and the corresponding dates of the diary entry and sketch, it is likely that this is the drawing mentioned...." -- RR Auction catalog description.
Type
image
Format
1 leaf drawing in ink with pencil drawings (visual works)
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