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    Alice meets the blue caterpillar

    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