{"id":5,"date":"2005-05-23T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T20:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblogbeta\/2005\/05\/23\/fore-edge-painting\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T15:38:40","slug":"fore-edge-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2005\/05\/23\/fore-edge-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fore-edge painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a5\"><\/a>  Although they don&#8217;t get a lot of respect in special collections circles, I&#8217;ve always had a certain fondness for <a href=\"http:\/\/palimpsest.stanford.edu\/don\/dt\/dt1413.html\">fore-edge paintings<\/a>. You make a fore-edge painting by fanning the right-hand edge of a book downward and painting an image on the edge of the leaves. When you release the leaves to their normal position, the image disappears. Fore-edge paintings were fashionable in the 19th century, but because of their popularity with collectors, it&#8217;s not uncommon for 19th century books to have much later paintings applied, for the sake of the resultant price boost. I&#8217;m not enough of an expert to judge the authenticity of this painting, but it&#8217;s hard not to wonder how a scene of duck hunters ended up on <a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=009278878\">a poem intended<\/a> &#8220;to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature&#8221; (DNB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although they don&#8217;t get a lot of respect in special collections circles, I&#8217;ve always had a certain fondness for fore-edge paintings. You make a fore-edge painting by fanning the right-hand edge of a book downward and painting an image on the edge of the leaves. When you release the leaves to their normal position, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}