{"id":17392,"date":"2015-10-30T01:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T01:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17392"},"modified":"2015-10-30T01:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T01:04:30","slug":"hugo-steiner-prags-the-ancestress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/30\/hugo-steiner-prags-the-ancestress\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Steiner-Prag&#8217;s The Ancestress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"steinerprag08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/steinerprag08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another handful of macabre illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag. As before, these are minor works compared to the <em>Golem<\/em> illustrations and his illustrated Poe but it&#8217;s good to find something new. <em>The Ancestress<\/em> (1816) was a tragedy by Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer in which a woman killed by her husband for infidelity returns to haunt future generations.\u00a0Steiner-Prag&#8217;s illustrations date from 1919, and may be seen at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/browse\/hugo%20steiner-prag%20ancestress?q.openId=8129907598665562501&amp;projectId=art-project\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cultural Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"steinerprag09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/steinerprag09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"steinerprag10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/steinerprag10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"steinerprag07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/steinerprag07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"steinerprag11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/steinerprag11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"steinerprag12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/steinerprag12.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\/2015\/10\/06\/hugo-steiner-prags-ghostly-ballads\/\">Hugo Steiner-Prag\u2019s Ghostly Ballads<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/24\/hugo-steiner-prags-illustrated-poe\/\">Hugo Steiner-Prag\u2019s illustrated Poe<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/26\/hugo-steiner-prags-golem\/\">Hugo Steiner-Prag\u2019s Golem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another handful of macabre illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag. As before, these are minor works compared to the Golem illustrations and his illustrated Poe but it&#8217;s good to find something new. The Ancestress (1816) was a tragedy by Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer in which a woman killed by her husband for infidelity returns to haunt future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/30\/hugo-steiner-prags-the-ancestress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hugo Steiner-Prag&#8217;s The Ancestress&#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":[2,48,46],"tags":[7730,402,5312],"class_list":["post-17392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-illustrators","category-theatre","tag-franz-grillparzer","tag-golem","tag-hugo-steiner-prag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392","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=17392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}