{"id":9105,"date":"2011-03-21T02:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2011-03-21T02:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:55:10","slug":"thomas-mackenzies-aladdin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/21\/thomas-mackenzies-aladdin\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Mackenzie&#8217;s Aladdin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aladdin1.jpg\" alt=\"aladdin1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tip for this one came via <a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulcentury.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/thomas-mackenzie-1919.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful Century<\/a>. Thomas Mackenzie (1887\u20131944) was a minor British illustrator whose work I hadn&#8217;t seen before, and if I&#8217;d seen the picture above uncredited I might have taken it for something by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpib.com\/illustrat\/nielsen.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Nielsen<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpib.com\/illustrat\/dulac.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Edmund Dulac<\/a>. Mackenzie&#8217;s colour plates for the 1919 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/aladdinhiswonder00ransiala\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme<\/em><\/a> by Arthur Ransome are very similar to his more famous contemporaries, while the black-and-white pieces owe a considerable debt to Aubrey Beardsley, especially the title page below. Not all the drawing is as assured as one might hope but the book as a whole is still worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aladdin2.jpg\" alt=\"aladdin2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aladdin3.jpg\" alt=\"aladdin3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aladdin4.jpg\" alt=\"aladdin4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aladdin5.jpg\" alt=\"aladdin5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aladdin6.jpg\" alt=\"aladdin6.jpg\" \/><\/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<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/17\/more-arabian-nights\/\">More Arabian Nights<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/15\/edward-william-lanes-arabian-nights-entertainments\/\">Edward William Lane\u2019s Arabian Nights Entertainments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tip for this one came via Beautiful Century. Thomas Mackenzie (1887\u20131944) was a minor British illustrator whose work I hadn&#8217;t seen before, and if I&#8217;d seen the picture above uncredited I might have taken it for something by Kay Nielsen or Edmund Dulac. Mackenzie&#8217;s colour plates for the 1919 edition of Aladdin and His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/21\/thomas-mackenzies-aladdin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thomas Mackenzie&#8217;s Aladdin&#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":[285,2391,94,286,279,2139,444,2390],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-arabian-nights","tag-arthur-ransome","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-edmund-dulac","tag-edward-william-lane","tag-kay-nielsen","tag-peacocks","tag-thomas-mackenzie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","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=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}