Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

aka Lewis Carroll

Photographer

Here is a small set of photos. Eventually we want to do something interesting here - But this will do for now.

This page is in memory of Helmut Gernsheim who made Dodgson's photography known to the general public in 1949 and who, over the years, taught us so much about the early days of photography.

There are two round robins. The second is for Alice and the first for the others. At the last image in each, clicking in the upper right takes you to the other set
Clicking on the image takes you to the next image. takes you back an image and returns you here.
Mark this visit with a white stone.

Aileen Wilson-Todd, taken a Croft Rectory (CD's family home).
Mr. and Mrs. Millais with their two daughters.
Alice Constance Westmacott, daughter of the sculptor Richard Westmacott
Two Children - Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Beatrice Henley - daughter of the Vicar of Putney.
Ellen Terry - actress at 18 (already disasterously married).
Florence Bickerstith - daughter of the Bishop of Ripon.
Marcus Keane.
Maria White, niece of the porter at Lambeth Palace.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter
Christina Rossetti and her mother.
Alexander Munro, sculptor, with his wife.
Hallam Tennyson, son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alice Liddell

Edith, Lorina and Alice (the Liddell sisters). (1859)
Alice Liddell (1859)
Again (1859)
and Again (1859)
And YET again. (1859)
Once again with sisters Edith and Lorina. Alice gets the grapes.
The last page of the original Alice's Adventures Underground
Charles Dodgson's last portrait of Alice. Morton Cohen calls her "sullen," I call her pensive, perhaps sad. (1870)
Alice Liddell as a young adult. Taken by Julia Cameron.

Most of the Alice (and her sisters) images are scanned from Lewis Carroll with a text by Graham Ovenden (Masters of photography series). London : McDonald & Queen Anne. 1984.
And all of the others come from Lewis Carroll, Photographer by Helmut Gernsheim. London : Max Parrish & Co. 1949.

Go photographing with Hiawatha.

A couple of links:

Lewis Carroll's home page.
The Princeton University Library has one of the major collections of Lewis Carroll's photographs. Reproductions are for sale. Click here to see.

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