Alice Liddell; Ina Liddell; Harry Liddell; Edith Mary Liddell
8 of 15 portraits matching these criteria:
- set matching 'Photographs of Alice Liddell and family'
© National Portrait Gallery, London and the National Media Museum (part of the Science Museum Group, London)
Alice Liddell; Ina Liddell; Harry Liddell; Edith Mary Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
albumen print, Spring 1860
5 3/4 in. x 7 3/8 in. (145 mm x 188 mm) uneven
Purchased jointly with the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, with help from the Art Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 2002
Primary Collection
NPG P991(7)
Sittersback to top
- Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934), Inspiration for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'; daughter of Henry George Liddell. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
- Edith Mary Liddell (1854-1876), Sister of Alice Pleasance Liddell. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Edward Henry ('Harry') Liddell (1847-1911), Brother of Alice Pleasance Liddell. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Lorina Charlotte ('Ina') Liddell (1849-1930), Sister of Alice Pleasance Liddell. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898), Photographer and author of 'Alice in Wonderland'. Artist or producer associated with 62 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- I-Spy National Portrait Gallery, 2010, p. 61
- Funnell, Peter (introduction); Marsh, Jan, A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits, 2011, p. 40 Read entry
Lewis Carroll, who took this photograph in the spring of 1860, became friends with the Liddell family while he was a colleague of their father in Oxford. Carroll regularly entertained the children with fantastic stories, one of which was to become Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), his most famous book. Alice (1852-1934), shown on the left here, with her sisters Ina (1849-1930) and Edith (1854-1876) and brother, Henry Liddell (1847-1911), was the inspiration for the character of Alice in the book.
- Prodger, Phillip, Victorian Giants, The Birth of Art Photography, 2018 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 1 March - 20 May 2018), p. 74
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Oxfordshire (Deanery garden, Christ Church, Oxford)
Events of 1860back to top
Current affairs
An early feminist movement, The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded by Adelaide Anne Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Helen Blackburn, Bessie Parks, Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, and Jessie Boucherett.The Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St Thomas's Hospital, in London, funded from the testimonial fund collected for Nightingale following her war services, and helping to establish nursing as a profession.
Art and science
William Morris and new wife Jane Burden move into the Red House, near Bexleyheath, Kent. The house, designed by Philip Webb, represents Morris's principle in interior design, that no object should be in a house that is not beautiful.Ford Madox Brown paints The Last of England, showing a boat of emigrants leaving England under desperate circumstances, inspired by the emigration of the Pre-Raphaelite Thomas Woolner to Australia in 1852.
International
Italian unification continues as the Treaty of Turin brings much of Northern Italy under nationalist leader Cavour's control, who cedes Savoy and Nice to France. Garibaldi siezes the opportunity to invade Marsala in Sicily with his army of 1,000 redshirts, proclaiming himself dictator in the name of Victor Emmanuel II.Republican Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US, with only 39% of the popular vote.
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