{"id":16044,"date":"2014-11-26T03:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T02:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16044"},"modified":"2014-11-26T03:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T02:53:04","slug":"edmund-j-sullivans-sintram-and-his-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/11\/26\/edmund-j-sullivans-sintram-and-his-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund J. Sullivan\u2019s Sintram and His Companions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More Sullivan, the illustrations this time being for a 1908 edition of Sintram and His Companions<\/em><\/a> by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu\u00e9. This is one of Fouqu\u00e9’s lesser known works, a tale of a Norwegian knight which the author based on the famous etching by Albrecht D\u00fcrer, The Knight, Death and the Devil<\/em> <\/a>(1513). The\u00a0etching is shown as a frontispiece which Sullivan then has to follow, not an enviable task for any artist. If the subsequent drawings can’t match D\u00fcrer’s meticulous rendering they nonetheless base their characters on D\u00fcrer’s figures, the dog included. This kind of repurposing is commonplace today but it was very uncommon in 1908, and offhand I can’t think of an earlier example. It’s also worth noting the discussion in the comments for yesterday’s post about the influence of Edmund J. Sullivan on the young Austin Osman Spare. Sullivan and Spare knew each other, and Phil Baker’s Spare biography mentions Sullivan’s work being an influence, but I’d not given the matter much attention until this week. The influence is easy to see when you view their drawings together.<\/p>\n

To return to D\u00fcrer, the sight of his\u00a0etching always makes me think of a later piece of fiction, A Dog in D\u00fcrer\u2019s Etching “The Knight, Death and the Devil”<\/em> (1966) by Marco Denevi. A short tour-de-force that may be read in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Edmund J. Sullivan\u2019s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/a>
\n\u2022 D\u00fcrer\u2019s Instruction of Measurement<\/a>
\n\u2022 Eustace details<\/a>
\n\u2022 Melencolia details<\/a>
\n\u2022 Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Triumphal Arch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Sullivan, the illustrations this time being for a 1908 edition of Sintram and His Companions by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu\u00e9. This is one of Fouqu\u00e9’s lesser known works, a tale of a Norwegian knight which the author based on the famous etching by Albrecht D\u00fcrer, The Knight, Death and the Devil (1513). The\u00a0etching … Continue reading “Edmund J. Sullivan\u2019s Sintram and His Companions”<\/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":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[68,2469,6715,6716,6717,2470],"class_list":["post-16044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-albrecht-durer","tag-austin-osman-spare","tag-edmund-j-sullivan","tag-friedrich-de-la-motte-fouque","tag-marco-denevi","tag-phil-baker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044","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=16044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}