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Cheshire Cat from John Tenniel's illustration to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1866)

Lewis Carroll popularised the Cheshire Cat, but the idea has a much earlier origin. A 16th-century carving of a grinning cat at St Wilfrid's, Grappenhall, near the author's birthplace, might have been an inspiration.

Credit: John Tenniel (1866)

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