{"id":14340,"date":"2013-09-28T02:26:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14340"},"modified":"2013-09-28T02:26:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T01:26:01","slug":"tenniels-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/28\/tenniels-fables\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenniel&#8217;s Fables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows John Tenniel&#8217;s illustrations for Lewis Carroll&#8217;s Alice books, two volumes which have overshadowed the rest of his career. In addition to being a popular artist at <em>Punch<\/em> magazine Tenniel illustrated a number of other books including a collection of <em>Aesop&#8217;s Fables<\/em> in 1848. The copy from which these pictures are taken is a later edition from 1898, with text by Thomas James. The drawings lack the indelibly memorable quality of the Alice illustrations but that&#8217;s partly a result of the content which for Aesop is always going to lack the invention of Wonderland. Browse the rest of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/aesopsfablesnewv1898jame#page\/n5\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia700502.us.archive.org\/3\/items\/aesopsfablesnewv1898jame\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tenniel07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tenniel07.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\/11\/19\/scenes-from-a-carriage\/\">Scenes from a carriage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows John Tenniel&#8217;s illustrations for Lewis Carroll&#8217;s Alice books, two volumes which have overshadowed the rest of his career. In addition to being a popular artist at Punch magazine Tenniel illustrated a number of other books including a collection of Aesop&#8217;s Fables in 1848. The copy from which these pictures are taken is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/28\/tenniels-fables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tenniel&#8217;s Fables&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[1626,787,114,5241],"class_list":["post-14340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-aesop","tag-john-tenniel","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-thomas-james"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Ji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340","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=14340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}