{"id":11509,"date":"2012-06-04T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2012-06-04T02:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T01:55:44","slug":"eleanor-fortescue-brickdales-illustrated-tennyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/04\/eleanor-fortescue-brickdales-illustrated-tennyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s illustrated Tennyson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drawings from an edition of Alfred Tennyson’s Poems <\/em> illustrated by British artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872\u20131945) which was published by George Bell & Sons in 1905. The book was part of a series of illustrated poetry collections that included several books featured here in previous posts: Poems by John Keats<\/em> and Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/em> both illustrated by Robert Anning Bell<\/a>, and The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe<\/em> illustrated by William Heath Robinson<\/a>. There was also an edition of Browning illustrated by Byam Shaw at whose art school Ms Fortescue-Brickdale was employed as a teacher. Her Tennyson drawings aren’t entirely to my taste, I’ve omitted the full-page works which are rather static pre-Raphaelite-derived things. Far better are these vignettes whose heavy outlines and sinuous curves resemble both Heath Robinson’s early illustrations and Pamela Coleman Smith<\/a>‘s famous Tarot card designs. As usual the Internet Archive<\/a> has the whole book and (should anyone require more Tennyson) Ms Fortescue-Brickdale’s take on that Victorian staple Idylls of the King<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Drawings from an edition of Alfred Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by British artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872\u20131945) which was published by George Bell & Sons in 1905. The book was part of a series of illustrated poetry collections that included several books featured here in previous posts: Poems by John Keats and Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley … Continue reading “Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s illustrated Tennyson”<\/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":[2,30,42,48],"tags":[3760,3751,93,3759,1731,1141,7308,552],"class_list":["post-11509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-alfred-tennyson","tag-byam-shaw","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-eleanor-fortescue-brickdale","tag-john-keats","tag-keats","tag-percy-bysshe-shelley","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2ZD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509","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=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}