Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Slide 18

Hand-painted glass lantern slide illustrating scene from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, made by York and Son, published with permission of MacMillan and Co, 1870s. Slide number 18 "Yet you balanced an eagle on the end of your nose".

This slide illustrates part of the poem 'You are Old, Father William', recited by Alice to the Caterpillar in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

"You are old" said the youth, "one would hardly suppose

That your eye was as steady as ever;

Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -

What made you so awfully clever?"