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When Majesty turns to folly!<\/em><\/p>\n John Yunge-Bateman (1897\u20131971), aka “Yunge”, is another British illustrator whose work I’d not noticed until now, possibly because this 1930 edition of King Lear<\/em> is an early creation in a derivative style the artist abandoned. The ten black-and-white drawings are closer to Harry Clarke than Aubrey Beardsley, and a couple of them even try to match Clarke’s more grotesque inventions albeit with variable results. Some of the faces are rather dopey for my taste but I like the use of solid blacks. These samples are taken from a scarce copy currently up for auction at\u00a0silver-gryph’s eBay pages<\/a> should anyone be interested. (Thanks again to Nick for the tip!)<\/p>\n Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, go to the creating a whole tribe of fops.<\/em><\/p>\n If you come slack of former services you shall do well.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in, and thy dear judgement out!<\/em><\/p>\n If only to warm were gorgeous, why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wearest, which scarcely keeps thee warm.<\/em><\/p>\n Pr’ythee, nuncle, be contented; ’tis a naughty night to swim in.<\/em><\/p>\n Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once.<\/em><\/p>\n This kiss, if it dare speak, would stretch thy spirits up into the air.<\/em><\/p>\n But I am bound on a wheel of fire.<\/em><\/p>\n Howl, howl, howl, howl.<\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } When Majesty turns to folly! John Yunge-Bateman (1897\u20131971), aka “Yunge”, is another British illustrator whose work I’d not noticed until now, possibly because this 1930 edition of King Lear is an early creation in a derivative style the artist abandoned. The ten black-and-white drawings are closer to Harry Clarke than Aubrey Beardsley, and a couple … Continue reading “John Yunge-Bateman’s King Lear”<\/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":[2,30,42,48,46],"tags":[99,7127],"class_list":["post-16555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","category-theatre","tag-harry-clarke","tag-john-yunge-bateman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4j1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","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=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"yunge02.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yunge02.jpg\")
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