{"id":1154,"date":"2022-10-27T01:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library-dev.umbc.edu\/wp\/specialcollections\/cruikshank\/?page_id=1154"},"modified":"2022-10-27T01:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T01:58:31","slug":"fantasy-folklore-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/book-illustration\/fantasy-folklore-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy &amp; Folklore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:43% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/live-umbc-wpms-test.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/good-genius-1-scaled-e1670381331669-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2624 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/good-genius-1-scaled-e1670381331669-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/good-genius-1-scaled-e1670381331669-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/good-genius-1-scaled-e1670381331669-768x1074.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/good-genius-1-scaled-e1670381331669-1098x1536.jpg 1098w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/good-genius-1-scaled-e1670381331669.jpg 1427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#592a47;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">&nbsp;&#8220;All the inhabitants of an unreal world [Cruikshank] could readily create; the little innocent devils that go by the name of elf and sprite leapt in full armour from his brain, and it is worth remake that nowhere is the artist\u2019s expressional power so happily exercised as in the faces and forms of these fanciful figures.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#592a47\"><em>London Examiner<\/em>, 1875.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cruikshank was responsible for translating wondrous and outlandish scenes into images that could be printed and reproduced hundreds of times. His book illustrations span many genres; from moments of tender romance to epic displays of magic. His illustrative imagination brought to life familiar tales but also depicted the unseen world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The illustrations in these collections accompany a variety of texts from children\u2019s gift books and fairy tale compilations to collections of ghost stories. While these illustrations generally capture significant moments in the plots of these stories, many focus on the smaller fantastical moments that capture the wonder or horror of the moment in a cut on the page. In this genre more than any we see Cruikshank\u2019s eye for theatrics and extravagance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-style-zoooom\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>\u201cFairy Tale\u201d<\/strong> collection explores Cruikshank\u2019s renditions of popular children\u2019s folktales, the <strong>\u201cWhimsy\u201d<\/strong> collection captures the height of Cruikshank\u2019s creativity, and the <strong>\u201cOccult\u201d<\/strong> collection showcases Cruikshank\u2019s additions to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain&#8217;s obsession with the other-worldly. Together, these collections capture a snapshot of Cruikshank\u2019s expansive and popular illustration career beyond the novel.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/live-umbc-wpms-test.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/german-stories-1-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits on a stool reads from a book while people around him laugh.\" class=\"wp-image-2464 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/german-stories-1-reduced.jpg 595w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/german-stories-1-reduced-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Click on the collections below to learn more <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&#8220;All the inhabitants of an unreal world [Cruikshank] could readily create; the little innocent devils that go by the name of elf and sprite leapt in full armour from his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2623,"parent":798,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1154","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cruikshank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}