{"id":27167,"date":"2024-07-24T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27167"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:53:39","slug":"frank-c-papes-the-well-of-saint-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/07\/24\/frank-c-papes-the-well-of-saint-clare\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank C. Pap\u00e9’s The Well of Saint Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was asked recently if I’d ever written anything about British illustrator Frank C. Pap\u00e9 (1878\u20131972). The answer was no for two reasons, the first being that where book illustration is concerned I like to be able to point to whole books, and until recently there hasn’t been much of Pap\u00e9’s work available in complete editions. The second reason is that Pap\u00e9’s illustration is often broadly comic, to a degree that had he been born a generation or two later he might have been drawing humorous comic strips or editorial cartoons. Pap\u00e9 was very adept on a technical level but his drawings aren’t always to my taste so I’ve never spent much time looking for his books.<\/p>\n

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The first of those caveats has been ameliorated by recent uploads at the Internet Archive which include this volume, one of several Anatole France editions with Pap\u00e9 illustrations. The Well of Saint Clare<\/em><\/a> (1928) is a collection of religious stories set in the medieval era. The book appeared a few years after Pap\u00e9 had illustrated James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice<\/em>, a quasi-medieval fantasy which was the subject of a celebrated obscenity case in the USA. Anatole France’s satires were almost as contentious for a time\u2014the Vatican put his books on their prohibited list\u2014which leaves me wondering whether Pap\u00e9 had a natural inclination for risqu\u00e9 material or whether his publishers pushed him in this direction. Probably a little of both.<\/p>\n

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I was asked recently if I’d ever written anything about British illustrator Frank C. Pap\u00e9 (1878\u20131972). The answer was no for two reasons, the first being that where book illustration is concerned I like to be able to point to whole books, and until recently there hasn’t been much of Pap\u00e9’s work available in complete … Continue reading “Frank C. Pap\u00e9’s The Well of Saint Clare”<\/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":[2,42,48,31],"tags":[738,740,1624],"class_list":["post-27167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-religion","tag-anatole-france","tag-frank-c-pape","tag-james-branch-cabell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-74b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167","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=27167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}