Camille Flammarion. Les Terres du Ciel; Voyage Astronomique sur les Autres Mondes (The Lands of Heaven; An Astronomical Journey to the Other Worlds). 1864.
James Hall Nasmyth. Illustrations from The Moon, Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. 1864.
Utagawa Yoshiiku. Toriyama Akinari Terutada with Ghost (The Lavender Chapter). 1864.
M.E. Chevreul. Des Couleurs. 1864.
William Adolph. The Simplicity of the Creation. 1864.
Michel Eugène Chevreul. Couleurs d'un Spectre Solaire. 1864.
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Henri de Montaut. The Train of Projectiles Headed to the Moon, The Torchlight Promenade, The Interior of the Projectile, The Blastoff, Effects of the Launch, The Director at his Post, The Train of Projectiles Headed to the Moon. Illustration for De la Terre à la Lune, by Jules Verne. 1864.
John Filmer. Spectropia, or, Surprising Spectral Illusions Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of Any Colour. 1864.
Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. 1864.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, but the story originated three years earlier during a boating trip one English summer afternoon. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his penname Lewis Carroll) and Robinson Duckworth, both young Oxford dons, were rowing the three Liddell sisters—Alice, Lorina, and Edith—up the River Thames to the hamlet of Godstow for a picnic. Along the way, the girls asked for a story. Storytelling frequently enlivened their outings, and Carroll readily obliged. With no idea what would follow, he sent his heroine “straight down a rabbit-hole, to begin with, without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,” and the narrative of Wonderland emerged over the long afternoon. At the end of the day, ten-year-old Alice asked for a written copy of the story. Carroll drafted an outline the following day and finished the text within a few months. But, keenly attuned to the importance of pictures in a children’s book, he worked on the story’s illustrations for some time.
The manuscript, titled “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” was finally completed and given to Alice in 1864, dedicated to a dear child, in memory of a summer day. Urged by friends to publish the story, Carroll re-wrote and enlarged it, removing some of the private family references and adding two new chapters. The published version was illustrated by the artist John Tenniel, has never been out of print, and has had enormous impact on children’s literature and popular culture. -British Museum
Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures Underground. 1864.
John Everett Millais, The Lost Piece of Silver, c. 1864.
Jean-François Millet, The Flight into Egypt, c. 1864.
Charles Leander Weed, Yo-Semite Valley From The Mariposa Trail, 1864.
Ceylon, Taming the wild elephants, The Illustrated London News, 13th of August 1864.
William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, 1864.