Lewis Carroll popularised the Cheshire Cat, but the idea has a much earlier origin. A 16th-century carving of a grinning cat at St Wilfrid's, Grappenhall, near the author's birthplace, might have been an inspiration.
Credit: John Tenniel (1866)
Lewis Carroll popularised the Cheshire Cat, but the idea has a much earlier origin. A 16th-century carving of a grinning cat at St Wilfrid's, Grappenhall, near the author's birthplace, might have been an inspiration.
Credit: John Tenniel (1866)