Alice Liddell as "The Beggar Maid". Artist: Lewis Carroll (British, Daresbury, Cheshire 1832-1898 Guildford). Dimensions: Image: 16.3 x 10.9cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16in.)Mount: 14 1/8 in. × 10 7/8 in. (35.8 × 27.6 cm). Subject: Alice Pleasance Liddell (British, 1852-1934). Date: 1858.Known primarily as the author of children's books, Lewis Carroll was also a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University and an ordained deacon. He took his first photograph in 1856 and pursued photography obsessively for the next twenty-five years, exhibiting and selling his prints. He stopped taking pictures abruptly in 1880, leaving over three thousand negatives, for the most part portraits of friends, family, clergy, artists, and celebrities. Ill at ease among adults, Carroll preferred the company of children, especially young girls. He had the uncanny ability to inhabit the universe of children as a friendly accomplice, allowing for an extraordinarily trusting rapport with his young sitters and enabling him
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