Alice in Wonderland

Artist: Creefit, Jose de

With: F. Texidor ,Designer Hideo Sasaki

Status: In Situ and Within Central Park

Title: Alice in Wonderland 

Dates: 1959

Medium: Bronze and granite

Dimensions: Group H: 9 ft. 7 in.  D: 14 ft. 6 in. ; Plinth H: 1 ft.  Diameter: 34 ft. ; Esplanade Diameter: 67 ft. ; Seven bronze tablets each H: 1 ft. 9 in. W: 4 ft. 

Inscription: Seven bronze tablets:

1) TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE BAT! / HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU’RE AT! / UP ABOVE THE WORLD YOU FLY, / LIKE A TEA-TRAY IN THE SKY. /

2) THEY TOLD ME YOU HAD BEEN TO HER, / AND MENTIONED ME TO HIM: / SHE GAVE ME A GOOD CHARACTER, / BUT SAID I COULD NOT SWIM. /

3) BEAUTIFUL SOUP, SO RICH AND GREEN / WAITING IN A HOT TUREEN! / WHO FOR SUCH DAINTIES WOULD NOT STOOP? / SOUP OF THE EVENING, BEAUTIFUL SOUP! /

4) TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE / AGREED TO HAVE A BATTLE; / FOR TWEEDLEDUM SAID TWEEDLEDEE / HAD SPOILED HIS NICE NEW RATTLE. /

5) TWAS BRILLIG, AND THE SLITHY TOVES / DID GYRE AND GIMBLE IN THE COABE; / ALL MIMSY WERE THE BOROGROVES, / AND THE MOME RATHS OUTGRABE. /

6) SPEAK ROUGHLY TO YOUR LITTLE BOY, / AND BEAT HIM WHEN HE SNEEZES; / HE ONLY DOES IT TO ANNOY, / BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT TEASES./

7) ALICE IN WONDERLAND / IN MEMORY OF MY WIFE / MARGARITA DELACORTE / WHO LOVED ALL CHILDREN / GTD / MAGARITA DELACORTE MEMORIAL /