{"id":16289,"date":"2015-01-23T03:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T02:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16289"},"modified":"2015-01-23T03:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T02:33:36","slug":"kay-nielsens-grimm-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/01\/23\/kay-nielsens-grimm-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kay Nielsen&#8217;s Grimm Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Illustrated editions of the Grimm Brothers&#8217; fairy tales are so numerous it&#8217;s easy to overlook the better examples. Kay Nielsen&#8217;s edition isn&#8217;t only better than most, it&#8217;s an outstanding example of his meticulous approach to story illustration. <em>Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories<\/em> was published in 1925, and the beautiful colour plates really need to be seen at a larger size. You can view the rest of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/hanselgretelothe00grimrich#page\/n7\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia802606.us.archive.org\/35\/items\/hanselgretelothe00grimrich\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen17.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen18.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen19.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen20.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen21.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen21.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen22.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nielsen23.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nielsen23.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\/2011\/08\/19\/kay-nielsens-east-of-the-sun-and-west-of-the-moon\/\">Kay Nielsen\u2019s East of the Sun and West of the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrated editions of the Grimm Brothers&#8217; fairy tales are so numerous it&#8217;s easy to overlook the better examples. Kay Nielsen&#8217;s edition isn&#8217;t only better than most, it&#8217;s an outstanding example of his meticulous approach to story illustration. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories was published in 1925, and the beautiful colour plates really need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/01\/23\/kay-nielsens-grimm-fairy-tales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kay Nielsen&#8217;s Grimm Fairy Tales&#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":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[2139],"class_list":["post-16289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-kay-nielsen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4eJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289","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=16289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}