{"id":7255,"date":"2010-05-29T02:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2010-05-29T02:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T01:45:36","slug":"the-sapphire-museum-of-magic-and-occultism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/05\/29\/the-sapphire-museum-of-magic-and-occultism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sapphire Museum of Magic and Occultism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cover design by Pamela Colman Smith for The Tarot of the Bohemians by “Papus” aka G\u00e9rard Encausse (1910).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Sapphire Museum of Magic and Occultism<\/a> says it’s been around since 1999 but I don’t recall having come across it before. Among a variety of fascinating rarities is this gallery section<\/a> devoted to some of the less well-known illustrators of occult or occult-related books from the late 19th and early 20th century. Included there are two substantial galleries of work by Pamela Colman Smith, artist of the world’s most popular Tarot deck. Many of the scans are high-quality and, like the pictures at Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a>, seem to be taken from the original printings. A great site.<\/p>\n

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top left: WT Horton; top right: Cecil French.
\nbottom left: Althea Gyles; bottom right: M Bergson MacGregor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Pamela Colman Smith\u2019s Russian Ballet<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Julien Champagne, 1877\u20131932<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Pamela Colman Smith, 1878\u20131951<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Andrey Avinoff, 1884\u20131949<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Cameron, 1922\u20131995<\/a>
\n\u2022 Austin Osman Spare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cover design by Pamela Colman Smith for The Tarot of the Bohemians by “Papus” aka G\u00e9rard Encausse (1910). The Sapphire Museum of Magic and Occultism says it’s been around since 1999 but I don’t recall having come across it before. Among a variety of fascinating rarities is this gallery section devoted to some of the … Continue reading “The Sapphire Museum of Magic and Occultism”<\/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":[2,30,42,48,16],"tags":[1366,2469,316,1365,1363,1213,620,1367,547,552,1364],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","category-occult","tag-althea-gyles","tag-austin-osman-spare","tag-austin-spare","tag-cecil-french","tag-gerard-encausse","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-julien-champagne","tag-m-bergson-macgregor","tag-pamela-colman-smith","tag-tarot","tag-wt-horton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1T1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","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=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}