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"Come Away from Her" after Lewis Carroll

Come Away from Her is based on a manuscript drawing by Lewis Carroll for his book Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1864). At this point in his story, friendly birds fly off when Alice talks about what her cat likes to eat. In Kiki Smith's prints based on fairytales, childhood vulnerability and innocence like Alice's can be imbued with a sense of the sexual awakening that accompanies adolescence, and the animals sometimes shown with young girls suggest underlying forces of nature. Here we witness a cryptic scene, as Alice watches winged forms, some of them with incongruous limbs, fly away from her.


• Artist: Kiki Smith, American, born Germany, 1954
• Medium: Intaglio with hand applied watercolor
• Dates: 2003
• Dimensions: Sheet: 50 3/8 x 73 1/2 in. (128 x 186.7 cm) Image: 45 3/4 x 69 1/2 in. (116.2 x 176.5 cm)
• Signature: Signed lower right in graphite: "Kiki Smith 2003"
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 2004.22
• Edition: Edition: 21/28
• Credit Line: Gift of the Prints and Photographs Council
• Copyright: © Kiki Smith
• Image: Overall, 2004.22_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
Kiki Smith (American, born Germany, 1954). "Come Away from Her" after Lewis Carroll, 2003. Intaglio with hand applied watercolor, Sheet: 50 3/8 x 73 1/2 in. (128 x 186.7 cm) Image: 45 3/4 x 69 1/2 in. (116.2 x 176.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Prints and Photographs Council, 2004.22 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2004.22_PS1.jpg)