Google's most recent doodle includes a recognizable feline and smile.
The tech monster is paying tribute to Sir John Tenniel, the artist behind the great anecdotal characters of Lewis Carroll's prestigious books, "Alice's Experiences in Wonderland" and "Through the Mirror" on his 200th birthday celebration commemoration.
Tenniel, conceived in London in 1820, picked up popularity as a craftsman at 16 years old. He presented his first assortment of work, an oil painting, for a show at the General public of English Craftsmen. Tenniel proceeded to turn into a political illustrator for a week after week magazine, Punch, in 1850. It was there he built up his exceptional style joined by his photographic memory.
Tenniel's ability grabbed the eye of Charles Dodgson, referred to the world as Lewis Carroll, after a presentation in 1864. He would later proceed to outline "Alice's Experience's in Wonderland" discharged in 1865, trailed by "Through the Mirror" in 1871. Tenniel at that point continued his work as a political visual artist with Punch.
His commitments to "Alice in Wonderland" and Punch were respected in 1893 with a knighthood grant.
The present Google doodle was made by Matthew Cruickshank. The North London artist said he was roused by the Cheshire Feline and Alice's discussion.
"I trust individuals are roused to be as creative as Tenniel was with his work," said Cruickshank in an announcement.
John Tenniel
Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914)[1] was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
Tenniel was born in Bayswater, West London, to John Baptist Tenniel, a fencing and dancing master of Huguenot descent,[2][3] and Eliza Maria Tenniel. Tenniel had five siblings; two brothers and three sisters. One sister, Mary, was later to marry Thomas Goodwin Green, owner of the pottery that produced Cornishware. Tenniel was a quiet and introverted person, both as a boy and as an adult. He was content to remain firmly out of the limelight and seemed unaffected by competition or change. His biographer Rodney Engen wrote that Tenniel's "life and career was that of the supreme gentlemanly outside, living on the edge of respectability."[4]
In 1840, Tenniel, while practising fencing with his father, received a serious eye wound from his father's foil, which had accidentally lost its protective tip. Over the years, Tenniel gradually lost sight in his right eye;[5] he never told his father of the severity of the wound, as he did not wish to upset his father further.[6]
In spite of his tendency towards high art, Tenniel was already known and appreciated as a humorist and his early companionship with Charles Keene fostered and developed his talent for scholarly caricature
