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Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of the 19th century. Tenniel is considered important to the study of that period’s social, literary, and art histories. Tenniel was knighted by Victoria for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is most noted for two major accomplishments: he was the principal political cartoonist for Britain’s ''Punch'' magazine for more than 50 years, and he was the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s ''Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' (1871). ==Early life== John Tenniel Junior was born on 28 February 1820 in Bayswater, West London, to his parents John Baptist and Eliza Maria. Tenniel had five other 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. As Engen said in his book, Tenniel’s “life and career was that of the supreme gentlemanly outside, living on the edge of respectability.” In 1840 Tenniel, while practising fencing with his father, received a serious wound in his eye from his father's foil, which had accidentally lost its protective tip. Over the years Tenniel gradually lost sight in his right eye;〔"Tenniel, at the age of twenty, lost the sight of one eye in a fencing bout with his father. The button accidentally dropped from his father's foil, and the blade's tip flicked across his right eye with a sudden pain that must have felt like a wasp's sting."—Martin Gardner, ''The Annotated Alice'', Page 223〕 he never told his father of the severity of the wound, as he did not wish to upset his father to any greater degree than he had been. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Tenniel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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