'I am fond of all children', Carroll once said, 'except boys.' He met Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, when he was looking for young photographic models. It was for her entertainment that he whiled away the summer of 1862 elaborating one of the most extraordinary fables in the language. Even when she was grown-up the memory of their friendship continued to haunt him: Still she haunts me phantomwise Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes... It says something for Carroll's way with children that he was able to get them to remain still for his customary exposure time of 45 seconds. The results invariably reveal qualities of solemn infant perceptiveness: an intentness whcih evokes by reflection the intensity of the photographer's interest. In this, one of the Carroll's most memorable images, these effects are emphasized by the starkness of the figure in shallow 'Pre-Raphaelite' space, and by what seems a suspicion lurking in Alice's eyes that she is the victim of an obscure adult jest. Alice was later to be the model for some of Mrs. Cameron's most characteristically Pre-Raphaelite portraits (no.72).