{"id":8794,"date":"2011-02-01T01:44:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T01:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2011-02-01T01:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T01:44:27","slug":"the-art-of-robert-lawson-1892%e2%80%931957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/01\/the-art-of-robert-lawson-1892%e2%80%931957\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Robert Lawson, 1892\u20131957"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sargasso Sea (no date).<\/em><\/p>\n

Did I say Sargasso Sea? Blame William Hope Hodgson<\/a> some of whose sea stories I was re-reading over the weekend. An idle search for Sargasso images turned up this tremendous etching by American author and illustrator Robert Lawson, part of a collection of equally fine work<\/a> at the Florida State University. There’s little information about this picture, unfortunately, it’s a numbered print so it’s most likely a one-off piece but it would make an ideal cover illustration for a Hodgson collection. It hadn’t occurred to me before but the rambling third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> series might have been improved if they’d made use of the old Sargasso-as-oceanic-graveyard legend, it’s just the place you’d expect to find Davy Jones and his piscine crew.<\/p>\n

Bud Plant<\/a> has more about Robert Lawson’s career and examples of his book illustrations.<\/p>\n

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Untitled (CityShip) \u2013 Manhattan (no date).<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Coming soon: Sea Monsters and Cannibals!<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet meets Hodgson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Davy Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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