Daisies on a bank, a frontispiece illustration by John Vernon Lord in
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Artists' Choice Editions, 2009.
This illustration acts as a frontispiece in my version of Lewis Carroll's story. I took a photograph in our garden to represent a kind of 'reality' before Alice succumbs to sleep and to dream upon a bank full of daisies.
The text:
CHAPTER I
Down the
Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very
tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank, and of
having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped
into the book
her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in
it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice
'without
pictures or conversation?'
So she was
considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for
the hot day made
her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the
pleasure of
making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of
getting up and
picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit
with pink eyes
ran close by her.
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