Sir John Tenniel’s Classic Illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The Public Domain Review and Medium are hosting a Mad Hatter?s mashup party in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland this month. We?re starting today and continuing for as long as anyone wants to join in.

The Public Domain Review has invited a dozen Lewis Carroll experts to annotate a special version of the story with lots of fun trivia and facts about the book and its author. You?ll find their comments in the margin notes. We?ll be publishing two new annotated chapters here each week for the next six weeks.

You?re also invited to make your own personal digital edition of Alice on Medium.

Once you have a Medium account, just copy the text of the story to a new post that you?ve created, and pick images from free-to-use image collections that we?ve provided on Medium especially for this event below ? or create your own, then add them to the story however you like. If you want to share your original art works with others, choose a Creative Commons license after you hit the publish button.

Medium has commissioned remixes of some of the most famous Alice illustrations, which you are also free to use. Make and share your own remixes of the original Tenniel and Rackham illustrations, and we?ll add them to our 12 master chapters alongside the annotations.

Make sure to tag your book ?Alice in Wonderland? and ?Mad Hatters Mashup Party? so others can discover it!

All images below are by Sir John Tenniel from the 1865 edition, via Wikimedia Commons.

The King and Queen of Hearts inspect tart in courtroom

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White Rabbit checks his watch

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Alice finds a tiny door behind the curtain

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Alice discovers a bottle marked ?Drink Me?

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Alice stretches very tall

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Giant Alice watches Rabbit run away

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Alice in a pool of tears

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Alice with Mouse in pool of tears

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Dodo presents Alice with a thimble

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Mouse tells a story to birds and Alice

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Alice crammed in Rabbit?s house

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Alice?s hand grabs at Rabbit

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?There goes Bill!?

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Dog looks at tiny Alice

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Alice meets the Caterpillar

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Father William stands on his head

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Father William somersaults in the door

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Father William having eaten the goose

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Father William balances an eel on his nose

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Fish and Frog servants

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Cook, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, Baby and Alice

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Alice and pig baby

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Alice speaks to the Cheshire Cat

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Cheshire Cat fades to a smile

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Mad Tea Party

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Mad Hatter engages in rhetoric

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The Mad Hatter and Hare dunk the Dormouse

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Two, Five and Seven paint the rosebush

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?OFF WITH HER HEAD!?

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Alice tries to play croquet with a flamingo and a hedge hog

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Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat?s head

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Alice (with flamingo) chats with the Duchess

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Gryphon asleep

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Mock Turtle and Gryphon sing to Alice

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Mock Turtle and Gryphon demonstrate the Lobster Quadrille

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Lobster primps before a mirror

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The White Rabbit, dressed as a herald, blows a trumpet

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Mad Hatter arrives hastily at court to testify

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Md Hatter leaves court just as hastily as he arrived

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Giant Alice upsets the jury

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King reflects in court

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?You?re all just a pack of cards!?

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Index of Illustrations

1. King and Queen of Hearts | High res
2. White Rabbit checks watch | High res
3. Alice finds tiny door | High res
4. ?Drink Me? | High res
5. Alice stretched tall | High res
6. Giant Alice watches rabbit run away | High res
7. Alice in pool of tears | High res
8. Alice with Mouse in pool of tears | High res
9. Dodo presenting thimble | High res
10. Mouse tells a story | High res
11. Alice cramped in Rabbit?s house | High res
12. Alice?s hand grabs at Rabbit | High res
13. ?There goes Bill!? | High res
14. Dog looks at tiny Alice | High res
15. Alice meets the Caterpillar | High res
16. Father William stands on head | High res
17. Father William somersaults in the door | High res
18. Father William having eaten the goose |High res
19. Father William balances eel on nose | High res
20. Fish and Frog servants | High res
21. Cook, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, Baby and Alice | High res
22. Alice and the pig baby | High res
23. Alice speaks to the Cheshire Cat | High res
24. Cheshire Cat fading to smile | High res
25. Mad Tea Party | High res
26. Hatter engaging in rhetoric | High res
27. Hatter and Hare dunking Dormouse | High res
28. Two, Five and Seven painting the rosebush | High res
29. ?OFF WITH HER HEAD!? | High res
30. Alice plays croquet with flamingo and hedge hog | High res
31. Executioner argues with King | High res
32. Alice (with flamingo) chats with the Duchess | High res
33. Gryphon asleep | High res
34. Mock Turtle and Gryphon sing to Alice | High res
35. Mock Turtle and Lobster demonstrate the Lobster Quadrille | High res
36. Lobster primps before a mirror | High res
37. White Rabbit, dressed as herald, blows trumpet | High res
38. Mad Hatter arrives hastily in court to testify | High res
39. ? and just as hastily leaves | High res
40. Giant Alice upsets the jury | High res
41. King reflects in court | High res
42. ?You?re nothing but a pack of cards!? | High res