Sir John Tenniel was an English caricaturist and illustrator well known for his original and good-humored political cartoons in the periodical Punch, with which he was associated from 1851 to 1901. Characteristic of these is Dropping the Pilot, which depicts Bismarck leaving the ship of state. Tenniel is also known for his illustrations of Thomas Moore's Aesop's Fables and other, and above all for Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Bibliography: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, c. 1950