{"id":10658,"date":"2011-12-20T01:39:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T01:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10658"},"modified":"2011-12-20T01:39:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T01:39:43","slug":"gerald-metcalfes-illustrated-coleridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/20\/gerald-metcalfes-illustrated-coleridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Metcalfe&#8217;s illustrated Coleridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe01.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This angel figure appeared here just over a year ago in a selection from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/17\/modern-book-illustrators-1914\/\"><em>Modern Book Illustrators and Their Work<\/em><\/a> (1914). Subsequent searching at the Internet Archive turned up a well-used copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/poemsofcoleridge00colerich\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Poems of Coleridge<\/em><\/a> (1907) from which the drawing originates. Gerald Metcalfe (1894\u20131929), was a British artist whose ink renderings often resemble woodcut engravings. Some of the drawings seem a little perfunctory but he does a decent enough job with <em>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em>, a poem whose wealth of incident is more suited to illustration than many of Coleridge&#8217;s shorter pieces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe02.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe03.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe04.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe05.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe10.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe06.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe07.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe08.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/metcalfe09.jpg\" alt=\"metcalfe09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This angel figure appeared here just over a year ago in a selection from Modern Book Illustrators and Their Work (1914). Subsequent searching at the Internet Archive turned up a well-used copy of The Poems of Coleridge (1907) from which the drawing originates. Gerald Metcalfe (1894\u20131929), was a British artist whose ink renderings often resemble &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/20\/gerald-metcalfes-illustrated-coleridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gerald Metcalfe&#8217;s illustrated Coleridge&#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":[2,42,48],"tags":[2082,3192],"class_list":["post-10658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-gerald-metcalfe","tag-samuel-taylor-coleridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2LU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658","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=10658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}