{"id":11287,"date":"2012-04-17T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11287"},"modified":"2012-04-17T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:26:07","slug":"maxwell-armfields-faery-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/17\/maxwell-armfields-faery-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell Armfield&#8217;s Faery Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield01.jpg\" alt=\"armfield01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A selection of colour plates from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/faerytalesfromha00ande\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen<\/em><\/a> (1910) illustrated by British artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/26\/the-art-of-maxwell-armfield-1881-1972\/\">Maxwell Armfield<\/a>. I hadn&#8217;t seen this collection before which turned up whilst searching for <em>Tinderbox<\/em> illustrations. Armfield does illustrate that particular story (here titled <em>The Tinder Box<\/em>\u2014the title varies) but we don&#8217;t get to see the monstrous hounds. I was especially struck by the picture of Mount Vesuvius from <em>What the Moon Saw<\/em> which looks more like something by Hokusai than the usual fairy tale painting of the period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield02.jpg\" alt=\"armfield02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield03.jpg\" alt=\"armfield03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield04.jpg\" alt=\"armfield04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield05.jpg\" alt=\"armfield05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield06.jpg\" alt=\"armfield06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield07.jpg\" alt=\"armfield07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield08.jpg\" alt=\"armfield08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/armfield09.jpg\" alt=\"armfield09.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\/2012\/04\/16\/the-tinderbox\/\">The Tinderbox<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/26\/the-art-of-maxwell-armfield-1881-1972\/\">The art of Maxwell Armfield, 1881\u20131972<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selection of colour plates from\u00a0Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1910) illustrated by British artist Maxwell Armfield. I hadn&#8217;t seen this collection before which turned up whilst searching for Tinderbox illustrations. Armfield does illustrate that particular story (here titled The Tinder Box\u2014the title varies) but we don&#8217;t get to see the monstrous hounds. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/17\/maxwell-armfields-faery-tales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maxwell Armfield&#8217;s Faery Tales&#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":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[2117,153],"class_list":["post-11287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-hans-christian-andersen","tag-maxwell-armfield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2W3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287","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=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}