Comparison - Arthur Rackham's and John Tenniel's Gryphon

 Okay - so to recap - this is my copy of Arthur Rackham's Gryphon:-

It's nice. I particularly like the tree - and to be fair he was very good at gnarly trees like this. The gryphon is well drawn, no argument. But I'm sorry, I don't think it approaches Tenniel's original- my copy of which is below:-

What a piece of illustration this is (I'm referring of course to Tenniel's original and not my copy of it). For all that this was produced for a children's book, this is simply a fantastic piece of fantasy illustration.