ALice iN Central Park, New York (USA)

Alice in Wonderland Sculpture Details

Photo of Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park
  • Location: 76th Street and 5th Avenue, near Conservatory Lake
  • Sculptor: José de Creeft
  • Architect: F. Texidor. Designer Hideo Sasaki
  • Materials: Bronze, Chelmsford granite
  • Dedicated: May 7, 1959
  • Donor: George and Margarita Delacorte

  • Inscriptions: 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.
http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/alice-in-wonderland.html?referrer=https://www.google.es/ Listen to american actress Whoopy Goldberg talk about it!

Click here to watch Whoopy as the Cheshire cat

American actor Robert Pattinson