{"id":17677,"date":"2016-01-26T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T01:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17677"},"modified":"2016-01-26T01:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T01:03:42","slug":"edmund-dulacs-tanglewood-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/26\/edmund-dulacs-tanglewood-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund Dulac&#8217;s Tanglewood Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac23.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another Dulac I&#8217;d not seen before, and what an exceptional edition it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/tanglewoodtales00hawt2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tanglewood Tales<\/em><\/a> is Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s retelling of Greek myths, a popular book for children that&#8217;s been through many reprints. Dulac&#8217;s edition dates from 1918, with the illustrations combining some of the stylisation of Greek art with\u00a0Dulac&#8217;s own derivations from Persian miniatures. This might seem odd historically\u2014the Greeks and Persians were enemies, after all\u2014but every plate is a beautiful piece of work. Collectors of Pan imagery should note a fine example in the twelfth painting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac24.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac24.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac25.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac26.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac27.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac28.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac29.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac29.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac30.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac30.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac31.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac31.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac32.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac32.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac33.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac33.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac34.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac34.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac35.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac35.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac36.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac36.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dulac37.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dulac37.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>Another Dulac I&#8217;d not seen before, and what an exceptional edition it is. Tanglewood Tales is Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s retelling of Greek myths, a popular book for children that&#8217;s been through many reprints. Dulac&#8217;s edition dates from 1918, with the illustrations combining some of the stylisation of Greek art with\u00a0Dulac&#8217;s own derivations from Persian miniatures. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/26\/edmund-dulacs-tanglewood-tales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edmund Dulac&#8217;s Tanglewood 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[286,7970,5774],"class_list":["post-17677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-edmund-dulac","tag-nathaniel-hawthorne","tag-pan-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4B7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677","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=17677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}