{"id":10600,"date":"2011-12-09T02:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2011-12-09T02:42:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T02:42:49","slug":"le-poulpe-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/09\/le-poulpe-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Poulpe Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/6261008252\/in\/set-72157627806267181\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poulpe1.jpg\" alt=\"poulpe1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this isn&#8217;t quite the ur-Kraken of illustration history, it&#8217;s one of them, reproduced countless times when sea monster depictions are required. The source is <em>Histoire naturelle, g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et particuliere, des mollusques, animaux sans vert\u00e8bres et a sang blanc<\/em> (1802) by Felix de Roissy, some of whose other illustrations are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/sets\/72157627806267181\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Flickr set<\/a> from the\u00a0Biodiversity Heritage Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/6261007608\/in\/set-72157627806267181\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poulpe2.jpg\" alt=\"poulpe2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are further cephalopodic curios in the BHL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/collections\/72157627424200471\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mollusks and Invertebrates<\/a> sets, the example below being from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/sets\/72157627786636012\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>R\u00e9sultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht<\/em><\/a> (1889), a fine collection of what the French would call <em>aquarelles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/6197443243\/in\/set-72157627786636012\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poulpe3.jpg\" alt=\"poulpe3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/05\/abysmal-creatures\/\">Abysmal creatures<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/08\/fascinating-tentacula\/\">Fascinating tentacula<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/12\/jewelled-butterflies-and-cephalopods\/\">Jewelled butterflies and cephalopods<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/06\/the-art-of-rune-olsen\/\">The art of Rune Olsen<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/12\/octopulps\/\">Octopulps<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/12\/coming-soon-sea-monsters-and-cannibals\/\">Coming soon: Sea Monsters and Cannibals!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this isn&#8217;t quite the ur-Kraken of illustration history, it&#8217;s one of them, reproduced countless times when sea monster depictions are required. The source is Histoire naturelle, g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et particuliere, des mollusques, animaux sans vert\u00e8bres et a sang blanc (1802) by Felix de Roissy, some of whose other illustrations are in this Flickr set from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/09\/le-poulpe-colossal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le Poulpe Colossal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,13],"tags":[1952,3151],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science","tag-cephalopods","tag-felix-de-roissy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2KY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}