LEWIS CARROLL Art Book contains 115 Reproductions of portraits, landscapes and genre scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).
BORN: January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, England.
DIED: January 14, 1898 in Guildford, England.
MEDIUM: Photography
INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Carroll was introduced to photography by his uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge and his friend Reginald Southey.
§ In 1856, Carroll purchased his own photography equipment and began to photograph Alice Liddell and her sisters.
§ In 1858, Carroll entered four photographs into the Photographic Society of London’s fifth exhibition.
§ Carroll rented Badcock Farm in Oxford as a studio.
§ In 1880, Carroll stopped photographing after 24 years. He had completed around 3000 images, of which less than 1000 have survived.
NOTABLE WORKS:
Alice Liddel; Alexandra Kitchin, Xie Posing as a China Man; Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Beatrice Henley.
