{"id":3749,"date":"2008-12-01T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/01\/december-and-vernon-hill\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:48:52","slug":"december-and-vernon-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/01\/december-and-vernon-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"December and Vernon Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who was Vernon Hill? A good question since he’s another of those illustrators about whom detailed information is in short supply. He was born in Halifax, England, which makes him a Yorkshireman, and this page<\/a> gives his birth date as 1887. A biographical note here<\/a> states that:<\/p>\n

Hill was primarily a wood-carver, most of whose illustrative work was done in the years 1910\u201312. His major achievements here were his designs for Ballads Weird and Wonderful<\/em> and The New Inferno<\/em>, both of which were collections of verse, the literary form most suitable for symbolic illustration. An important influence on him was Blake; it is seen in his often symmetrical compositions, the differences of scale of his figures, and their physique (which also show Hill’s feeling for sculpture).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hill’s curious depiction of the year’s end comes from a set of equally curious lithograph illustrations for John Lane, The Arcadian Calendar<\/em><\/a> (1910), produced in a style which resembles a hybrid of Sidney Sime and other post-Beardsley artists. This seems to have been atypical, unfortunately, subsequent book work shows more fully his Blake influence. The Demon Lover<\/em> is one of the better illustrations from Ballads Weird and Wonderful<\/em> (1912) which can be downloaded at the Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Demon Lover.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Sidney Sime and Lord Dunsany<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s The Year\u2019s at the Spring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who was Vernon Hill? A good question since he’s another of those illustrators about whom detailed information is in short supply. He was born in Halifax, England, which makes him a Yorkshireman, and this page gives his birth date as 1887. A biographical note here states that: Hill was primarily a wood-carver, most of whose … Continue reading “December and Vernon Hill”<\/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":[2,30,42,48],"tags":[99,458,1810,1809],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-harry-clarke","tag-john-lane","tag-lord-dunsany","tag-sidney-sime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Yt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}