The Deathly Appeal of Edgar Allan Poe
How fear runs through his timeless short stories, and his only completed novel. ‘Horror and fatality’, writes Poe in ‘Metzengerstein’, his first published short story, ...
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Shackleton’s Boat Journey – Fact and Fiction in the Visual Record of the Rescue
Senior Picture Editor Julie McMahon researched the photographs featured in our edition of Shackleton’s Boat Journey. Here she tell the story behind one crucial and seemingly ...
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Illustrating Folly
Artist Matthew Richardson on how he created a visual rhetoric to match Erasmus's In Praise of Folly. [caption id="attachment_2508" align="alignright" width="350"] Folly of Clergy[/caption] The most ...
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Picture Editor Laura Canter on John Harrison’s ‘fantastical machines’
As I began researching images for Longitude, I paid a visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to see John Harrison’s famous chronometers. As I stood in ...
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Artist Bill Bragg on illustrating Trollope
Bill Bragg, illustrator of the Folio Society’s new editions of The Warden and Barchester Towers, talks about depicting Trollope's ingenious characterisations. [caption id="attachment_2395" align="alignright" width="375"] One of ...