Alice Illustrated Around the World

Chapter title page with a black and white line illustration of the White Rabbit carrying a pocket watch and an umbrella.

Text arranged in the long, thing shape of a mouse tail.

Black and white line illustration of a wet Alice sitting in a crowd of dripping animals.

Alice looking up at a bespectacled caterpillar on a mushroom.

Chapter title page, titled 'Advice from a Caterpillar'.

Black and white line illustration of Alice with long hair and without her body.

Black and white line illustration of Alice looking up at the Cheshire Cat resting on multiple poles.

Cheshire Cat disappearing in the shape of horizontal and criss-crossing lines.

The crazed-looking March Hare, Dormouse, and Hatter in a thin line art style.

Illustration of Alice sitting at the tea table with a tree growing from the middle of the table.

Illustrated page with three poker card minions arguing with each other and painting a rosebush.

Black back cover with a decorative purple flower and border.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973.

Steadman’s drawings almost look as though they could have popped out of the head of his almost always inebriated confrère Hunter Thompson. Steadman’s style is a radical, and refreshing, change from the many conventional Alice illustrations that preceded it. The copy displayed is the first American edition. In his explanatory introduction, Steadman says of the Cheshire Cat that he “makes an ideal TV announcer whose smile remains as the rest of the programme fades out,” and in fact with smile intact the cat begins to fade away from his head backwards. Of his caucus race he wrote: “The Dodo in this picture reminded me of an Archbishop and being ‘dead as a dodo’ it fitted perfectly.” Many of the Wonderland characters wear Union Jack punk sunglasses.

Exhibit item 3.36

Alice Illustrated Around the World

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

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