Dalziel after John Tenniel, illustration for ‘Humpty Dumpty’, in Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

It can be interesting to think of Humpty Dumpty’s fragility in terms of Victorian expectations of masculinity.
Dalziel after John Tenniel, illustration for ‘Humpty Dumpty’, in Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (London: Macmillan, 1871). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVIII (1871), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.189, print no. 652.
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