{"id":10687,"date":"2011-12-29T01:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2011-12-29T01:20:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:20:50","slug":"harry-clarke-and-the-elixir-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/29\/harry-clarke-and-the-elixir-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Clarke and the Elixir of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarke1.jpg\" alt=\"clarke1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little something for the season of strong drink. Harry Clarke&#8217;s books command high prices in their original editions yet two of the costliest items in the Clarke bibliography are a pair of promotional booklets the artist illustrated for Jameson &amp; Son&#8217;s Irish Whiskey: <em>A History of a Great House<\/em> in 1924, and <em>Elixir of Life<\/em> a year later. Given the quality of Clarke&#8217;s work for these publications it&#8217;s a shame they remain out of print; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only Clarkeophile who&#8217;d be happy to buy a facsimile edition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarke2.jpg\" alt=\"clarke2.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<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/23\/cardwell-higgins-versus-harry-clarke\/\">Cardwell Higgins versus Harry Clarke<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/17\/modern-book-illustrators-1914\/\">Modern book illustrators, 1914<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/27\/illustrating-poe-3-harry-clarke\/\">Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/05\/13\/strangest-genius-the-stained-glass-of-harry-clarke\/\">Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/06\/10\/harry-clarkes-stained-glass\/\">Harry Clarke\u2019s stained glass<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/06\/harry-clarkes-the-years-at-the-spring\/\">Harry Clarke\u2019s The Year\u2019s at the Spring<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/10\/29\/the-art-of-harry-clarke-1889-1931\/\">The art of Harry Clarke, 1889\u20131931<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little something for the season of strong drink. Harry Clarke&#8217;s books command high prices in their original editions yet two of the costliest items in the Clarke bibliography are a pair of promotional booklets the artist illustrated for Jameson &amp; Son&#8217;s Irish Whiskey: A History of a Great House in 1924, and Elixir of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/29\/harry-clarke-and-the-elixir-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harry Clarke and the Elixir of Life&#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":[2116,99,2373],"class_list":["post-10687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-cardwell-higgins","tag-harry-clarke","tag-stained-glass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687","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=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}