Again Sir John Tenniel’s image of the duchess, based on a painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter Quintin Massys “A Grotesque Old Woman,” was difficult to get round, so I thought about a duchess and what she was, and if she had a baby who turned into a pig, what did that make her? I tried to show the porcine aspects of her - the bow in her hair that may remind us of a pig’s ears, the nostrils like a snout, she’s dressed in pink, and, if that’s not enough, there are even sausages round the cook’s apron.
Photograph: Anthony Browne
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