{"id":15892,"date":"2014-10-24T01:36:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15892"},"modified":"2014-10-24T01:36:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:36:52","slug":"knapps-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/10\/24\/knapps-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Knapp&#8217;s Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One last post about American illustrator J. Augustus Knapp. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/egypt00coll\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Egypt<\/em><\/a> (1900) is a slim volume by Laura G. Collins that presents a poetic remembrance of an Egyptian visit with embellishments and drawings by Knapp. The text is hand-written in that peculiar tree-branch style you often find in 19th-century literature, while Knapp&#8217;s illustrations look to have been copied from photos; the Sphinx is a familiar enough sight for us to see that the artist takes liberties with the perspective. I have a couple of Victorian photo-books of views of the world featuring Egyptian scenes that are almost identical to some of these. An odd volume with a stylish binding that includes Knapp&#8217;s monogram under the author&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"knappegypt08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/knappegypt08.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\/2014\/10\/23\/the-occult-knapp\/\">The occult Knapp<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/10\/22\/etidorhpa-by-john-uri-lloyd\/\">Etidorhpa by John Uri Lloyd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last post about American illustrator J. Augustus Knapp. Egypt (1900) is a slim volume by Laura G. Collins that presents a poetic remembrance of an Egyptian visit with embellishments and drawings by Knapp. The text is hand-written in that peculiar tree-branch style you often find in 19th-century literature, while Knapp&#8217;s illustrations look to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/10\/24\/knapps-egypt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knapp&#8217;s Egypt&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[6586,6585,6589],"class_list":["post-15892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-j-augustus-knapp","tag-john-uri-lloyd","tag-laura-g-collins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-48k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","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=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}