{"id":62,"date":"2013-02-05T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:21:37","slug":"old-mother-hubbard-in-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/old-mother-hubbard-in-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Mother Hubbard, in colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-62 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/02\/PN970_F6_M3_1860-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/02\/PN970_F6_M3_1860-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/02\/PN970_F6_M3_1860-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/02\/PN970_F6_M3_1860-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/02\/PN970_F6_M3_1860.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/02\/PN970_F6_M3_1860-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As I work through the chapbooks collection as a digitizer, I earmark things that I&#8217;d like to learn more about. This one is an interesting example, not only of a classic children&#8217;s tale (which, not being part of my childhood, I didn&#8217;t know had such a morbid undercurrent of grief-inflicted mental breakdown) in chapbook style, but of the kind of illustration work provided to items like this. The engravings are good, but the colouring seems to have been hand-applied, possibly in an assembly-line process that doesn&#8217;t seem to allow for much precision. I really want to isolate the dog in the first illustration, just to highlight the random intersections of blue, yellow, and orange.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&#038;find_code=SYS&#038;local_base=catalogue&#038;request=000115973\">Old Mother Hubbard And Her Wonderful Dog <\/a>in the Children&#8217;s Collection in Rare Books and Special Collections. If you know anything about the printing and colouring processes for books like this, feel free to share. You can find a similar colouring technique (applied with much greater precision) in <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&#038;find_code=SYS&#038;local_base=catalogue&#038;request=003493251\">Jack The Giant Killer<\/a> &#8212; and woodcuts suspiciously similar to Old Mother Hubbard&#8217;s distinctive features in <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&#038;find_code=SYS&#038;local_base=catalogue&#038;request=003376981\">Old Dame Trot. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I work through the chapbooks collection as a digitizer, I earmark things that I&#8217;d like to learn more about. This one is an interesting example, not only of a classic children&#8217;s tale (which, not being part of my childhood, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/old-mother-hubbard-in-colour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}