{"id":11994,"date":"2012-09-10T02:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T01:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:11:12","slug":"de-profundis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/10\/de-profundis\/","title":{"rendered":"De Profundis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/images\/deprofundis.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/deprofundis.jpg\" alt=\"deprofundis.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>De Profundis (2012).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The title is nothing to do with Oscar Wilde&#8217;s famous epistle from prison, but then that should be obvious looking at my latest piece of tenebrous artwork. &#8220;De Profundis&#8221; means &#8220;From the depths&#8221; which in this case is applied to another piece with a Cthulhu theme. I made a decision earlier this year that my calendar design for 2013 would comprise a collection of all my Cthulhu portraits to date, from <em>The Call of Cthulhu<\/em> on. I didn&#8217;t have 12 pictures, however, so I&#8217;m currently making up the numbers between other jobs. This is the first completed piece which steals a background from the illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and \u00c9douard Riou for Jules Verne&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/vingtmillelieue00vern\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea<\/em><\/a> (1871). The voyagers in the Nautilus encountered some fearsome creatures but nothing quite like this. I can&#8217;t say at the moment when the calendar will be ready but I&#8217;m hoping to have it finished before the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-lovecraft-archive\/\">The Lovecraft archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Profundis (2012). The title is nothing to do with Oscar Wilde&#8217;s famous epistle from prison, but then that should be obvious looking at my latest piece of tenebrous artwork. &#8220;De Profundis&#8221; means &#8220;From the depths&#8221; which in this case is applied to another piece with a Cthulhu theme. I made a decision earlier this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/10\/de-profundis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;De Profundis&#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":[42,22,26,23],"tags":[3659,104,3660,715],"class_list":["post-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-work","tag-alphonse-de-neuville","tag-cthulhu","tag-edouard-riou","tag-jules-verne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-37s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","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=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}