{"id":11059,"date":"2012-03-03T02:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:18:07","slug":"opium-dens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/03\/opium-dens\/","title":{"rendered":"Opium dens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/artwork\/352\/352\/37672\/Picknell_William_Lamb_The_Opium_Den_1881_Oil_on_Canvas-huge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/opiumden1.jpg\" alt=\"opiumden1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Opium Den (1881) by William Lamb Picknell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The romantic side of the addiction business. Needless to say, there&#8217;s a lot more of this kind of thing. The ultimate opium-related pictorial art is still Attila Sassy&#8217;s remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/50watts.com\/In-combating-myself-I-can-only-report-one-bloody-defeat-after-another\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Opium Dreams<\/em><\/a> from 1909, a series of drawings which can be seen at 50 Watts in high-quality scans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paintingsalley.com\/data\/media\/1371\/Stiepevich_Vincent_G_The_Opium_Den.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/opiumden2.jpg\" alt=\"opiumden2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Opium Den (no date) by Vincent G. Stiepevich.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artophile.com\/Images\/Detail\/George_Barbier_Chez_La_Marchande_de_Pavots_1022_35.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/opiumden3.jpg\" alt=\"opiumden3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Chez la Marchande de Pavots (The House of the Poppy Merchant, 1920) by George Barbier.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/opiumden4.jpg\" alt=\"opiumden4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Opium den from Fantasio (1915) by George Barbier.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/02\/opium-fiends\/\">Opium fiends<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/01\/la-morphine-by-victorien-du-saussay\/\">La Morphine by Victorien du Saussay<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/04\/haschisch-hallucinations-by-he-gowers\/\">Haschisch Hallucinations by HE Gowers<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/08\/the-dark-ledger\/\">The Dark Ledger<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/13\/demon-rum-leads-to-heroin\/\">Demon rum leads to heroin<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/08\/german-opium-smokers-1900\/\">German opium smokers, 1900<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opium Den (1881) by William Lamb Picknell. The romantic side of the addiction business. Needless to say, there&#8217;s a lot more of this kind of thing. The ultimate opium-related pictorial art is still Attila Sassy&#8217;s remarkable Opium Dreams from 1909, a series of drawings which can be seen at 50 Watts in high-quality scans. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/03\/opium-dens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opium dens&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,851,44],"tags":[2329,3426,695,3428,3427],"class_list":["post-11059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-drugs","category-painting","tag-50-watts","tag-attila-sassy","tag-george-barbier","tag-vincent-g-stiepevich","tag-william-lamb-picknell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059","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=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}