{"id":3191,"date":"2008-06-09T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/09\/the-art-of-virginia-frances-sterrett-1900%e2%80%931933\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:50:34","slug":"the-art-of-virginia-frances-sterrett-1900-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/09\/the-art-of-virginia-frances-sterrett-1900-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1900\u20131933"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/oldfrenchfairyta00sgrich\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sterrett1.jpg\" alt=\"sterrett1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty\u201d from Old French Fairy Tales. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the series of occasional posts mining the scanned library books at the Internet Archive, these illustrations are from a 1920 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/oldfrenchfairyta00sgrich\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Old French Fairy Tales<\/em><\/a> by Comtesse Sophie de S\u00e9gur and a 1921 volume of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/tanglewoodtales00hawt\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tanglewood Tales<\/em><\/a> by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Virginia Frances Sterrett, like Beardsley and Harry Clarke, was another artist whose life was cut short by tuberculosis. She was a remarkably accomplished 19-year-old when she illustrated the Sophie de S\u00e9gur book. Her incredible illustrations for <em>The Arabian Nights<\/em> (1928) can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfsterrett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/oldfrenchfairyta00sgrich\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sterrett4.jpg\" alt=\"sterrett4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey walked side by side during the rest of the evening\u201d from Old French Fairy Tales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/tanglewoodtales00hawt\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sterrett2.jpg\" alt=\"sterrett2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe whipped up the snakes and ascended high over the city\u201d from Tanglewood Tales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/tanglewoodtales00hawt\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sterrett3.jpg\" alt=\"sterrett3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis pitiless reptile had killed his poor companions\u201d from Tanglewood Tales.<\/em><\/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>\u201cRosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty\u201d from Old French Fairy Tales. Continuing the series of occasional posts mining the scanned library books at the Internet Archive, these illustrations are from a 1920 edition of Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse Sophie de S\u00e9gur and a 1921 volume of Tanglewood Tales by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/09\/the-art-of-virginia-frances-sterrett-1900-1933\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1900\u20131933&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[285,99],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-arabian-nights","tag-harry-clarke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","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=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}