Created for Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, published in 1872, John Tenniel’s original engraving showed Alice wearing a bulging dress resembling the base of a chess piece, though Lewis Carroll was unhappy with this, and the image was altered to give her a more fashionable dress. The scene comes from near the end of the story. The action follows the structure of a chess game in which Alice begins as a pawn on the second square of the chessboard landscape and travels across the board. When she finally reaches the eighth square, she is crowned and becomes a queen. This is followed by the chaotic ‘queen’s banquet’ scene, where the table collapses into nonsense and the dream soon ends.