The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.' Alice meets the blue caterpillar who is sitting on a mushroom smoking a pipe. The image is from The Nursery Alice, a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Published in 1890 this used some of Tenniel's original drawings, enlarged and coloured. Shelfmark: Cup.410.g.74

Creator: John Tenniel