{"id":17334,"date":"2015-10-14T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17334"},"modified":"2015-10-14T01:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:03:02","slug":"john-battens-indian-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/14\/john-battens-indian-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"John Batten&#8217;s Indian Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I keep intending to write some longer pieces, including a review of Aleksei German&#8217;s unforgettable <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrowfilms.co.uk\/hard-to-be-a-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hard To Be A God<\/a><\/em>, but the workload has been heavy again so here&#8217;s another illustrated book.<\/p>\n<p>Illustrations by John Dickson Batten (1860\u20131932) have appeared here before, all of them for collections of fairy tales compiled and adapted by\u00a0Joseph Jacobs. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/indianfairytales00jaco\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Indian Fairy Tales<\/em><\/a> (1892) is another Batten\/Jacobs collaboration, and is as fine as their other books, with Batten enclosing many of his full-page drawings in elaborate frames. Most of the figures look nothing like Indian people but that&#8217;s standard for books of this period. The Internet Archive has several copies of this title, including <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/indiantales00jacorich\" target=\"_blank\">a limited, numbered copy<\/a> with hand-coloured illustrations. I prefer the illustrations in black-and-white, however, so that&#8217;s what you see here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/batten16.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep intending to write some longer pieces, including a review of Aleksei German&#8217;s unforgettable Hard To Be A God, but the workload has been heavy again so here&#8217;s another illustrated book. Illustrations by John Dickson Batten (1860\u20131932) have appeared here before, all of them for collections of fairy tales compiled and adapted by\u00a0Joseph Jacobs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/14\/john-battens-indian-fairy-tales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Batten&#8217;s Indian 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":[2,42,48],"tags":[5272,5273],"class_list":["post-17334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-john-dickson-batten","tag-joseph-jacobs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4vA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334","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=17334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}