{"id":6011,"date":"2018-07-30T00:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2018-07-30T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:37:40","slug":"grotesque-animals-1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/07\/30\/grotesque-animals-1872\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotesque Animals (1872)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/grotesque_animals_1872_partial.pdf\">Grotesque Animals: Invented, Drawn, and Described by E.W. Cooke<\/a><\/em> (1872), co-creator with James Bateman of eccentric gardens at Biddulph Grange in North Staffordshire.  The book followed Lear&#8217;s <em>Book of Nonsense<\/em> by a few years, but the drawings were begun in 1864, a few years after Biddulph Grange was completed and Bateman had sold up and moved away.  The book has 24 plates, not well reproduced here in this partial 14-plate reconstruction, as subtle shades and tones are lost.  Each monster is explained briefly on a following page, but only one of these text pages can be found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/grotan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/grotan.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"836\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6013\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/eye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/eye.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6014\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plate V &#8211; too small to include in the partial reconstruction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/platev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/platev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6018\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ew-cooke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ew-cooke.jpg?w=614\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6015\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grotesque Animals: Invented, Drawn, and Described by E.W. Cooke (1872), co-creator with James Bateman of eccentric gardens at Biddulph Grange in North Staffordshire. The book followed Lear&#8217;s Book of Nonsense by a few years, but the drawings were begun in 1864, a few years after Biddulph Grange was completed and Bateman had sold up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}