Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Fourth Post (Final Impressions)
I can't say that I'm wild about the illustrations in this book. The convention of having Alice in a sepia toned world at the beginning and end and in a full colour world while in Wonderland is very overused. I'm slightly confused at Mr. Foreman's insistence that he is mimicking photographs (particularly with the sepia toned pages) because the watercolours are so far from being even a little bit photographic. It's cute that he used Alice Liddel as his model, but she seemed rather conventional as well. I don't know. This book just lacked the magic that so many other editions have captured! It felt like he was doing it because at some point every illustrator should do Alice (as he says in the afterward). To me, that isn't a reason.
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