44-846: Hentschel is a Germanic surname. People with this surname include: Carl Hentschel (1864-1930), British artist, phographer, printmaker, inventor and businessperson David Hentschel (born 1952), English recording engineer, writer and music producer Erwin Hentschel (1917–1944), German Knight's Cross recipient Falk Hentschel (born 1982), German actor Franziska Hentschel (born 1970), German field hockey player Johannes Hentschel (1908–1982), German master electro-mechanic Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), German historian of science Trent Hentschel (born 1982), Australian rules footballer York Hentschel (born 1953), Canadian football player [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
88-519: A block in twenty-four hours, it was specially noticed in the Press". He also describes the length of time allowed for some projects: "I can call to mind in 1879 having some very difficult old engravings to reproduce; they were for a book on Marie Antoinette, by Lord Ronald Gower , and it took the best part of a year to do what now could be done in a week". Hentschel was the inventor of the colour type process named after him; The Times wrote that he "made
132-537: A fortnight). Peter's mother puts him to bed early without supper. To cure his stomach-ache, Mrs. Rabbit gives Peter a teaspoon of chamomile tea . Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail, meanwhile, enjoy a delicious dinner of milk , bread and blackberries . The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published in the United Kingdom by Frederick Warne & Co. as a small hardback book in October 1901; Potter created both
176-404: A letter to a friend, Potter wrote that she refused Walt Disney's "scheme to film Peter Rabbit", saying, "I am not very hopeful about the result. They propose to use cartoons; it seems that a succession of figures can be joggled together to give an impression of motion. I don't think the pictures would be satisfactory... I am not troubling myself about it!" In 1935, the story was loosely adapted in
220-512: A new animated children's TV series titled Peter Rabbit premiered on Nickelodeon , with a full series run beginning in February 2013. In February 2018, a live-action/animated feature film titled Peter Rabbit , directed by Will Gluck , was released. Voice roles were played by James Corden , Daisy Ridley , Margot Robbie , and Elizabeth Debicki , and live action roles played by Domhnall Gleeson , Rose Byrne , and Sam Neill . A sequel
264-480: A paper collar factory". He was apprenticed to his father at 14. He wrote that "My first experience in producing illustrations was in assisting my father in photographing drawings on wood". His father had invented this technique, and later invented a process of printing on zinc, based on the Gillot process. The speed of some of Hentschel's own early work was unusual; in 1900 he said "when I succeeded in turning out
308-442: A pit door. His father introduced photo-etching into England. It enabled newspapers to print pictures, and altered the whole character of journalism. The process was a secret then. Young Carl and his father, locking the back kitchen door, and drawing down the blind, would stir their crucibles far on into the night. Carl worked the business up into a big concern; and we thought he was going to end as Lord Mayor. The war brought him low. He
352-476: A selection of her illustrations. One such is Warne's Meet Peter Rabbit , a board book for babies with five pictures inside and one on the front cover, along with Beatrix Potter's name. The text "barely mention[s] Mr. McGregor." In 1938, shortly after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney became interested in making an animated film based on The Tale of Peter Rabbit . However, in
396-533: A very short story "about four little rabbits", and illustrated it in the letter. Further letters about other animals followed, until in 1900, Annie Moore proposed to Potter that the illustrated letters could be made into books. The story focuses on Peter , a young rabbit , and his family. Peter's mother, Mrs. Rabbit, intends to go shopping for the day and allows Peter and her other three children, Peter's sisters: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail to go playing. She tells them they can go anywhere they like, but not to enter
440-410: A woman in the strict Victorian era , and as a place for her young readers to imagine going to similar extremes. School Library Journal included the book at #19 on their Top 100 Picture Books list in 2012. Potter asserted her tales would one day be nursery classics, and part of the "longevity of her books comes from strategy", writes Potter biographer Ruth MacDonald. She was the first to exploit
484-492: Is "gone" and it buys him some time to escape to the gate. Peter sees from a distance the gate where he entered the garden and heads for it, despite being noticed and chased by Mr. McGregor again. With difficulty, he wriggles under the gate, and escapes from the garden. His abandoned clothing is used by Mr. McGregor to dress a scarecrow . After returning home late, a sick Peter is reprimanded by his mother for losing his shoes and his jacket (the second jacket and shoes he has lost in
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#1732772934361528-413: Is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after offering him chamomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, the son of Potter's former governess, Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It
572-488: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carl Hentschel Carl Hentschel (27 March 1864 – 9 January 1930) was a British artist, photographer, printmaker, inventor and businessperson. He developed techniques for printing illustrations, particularly the Hentschel Colourtype Process using three colours, which have been described as "revolutionising" newspaper illustration. He
616-414: Is good for him and goes looking for parsley to cure his stomach ache. Peter is seen by Mr. McGregor, who chases Peter. Peter gets caught in a net and three friendly sparrows comfort him. Peter manages to escape Mr. McGregor just in time, but loses his blue jacket and shoes while running off. He hides in a greenhouse, ultimately jumping into a watering can for protection. Unfortunately there is water inside
660-530: Is stated to be dangerous, as it is where Peter's father met his death. She cites Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott's description of Peter as a "naughty boy who values his independence and whose desire to transgress boundaries far outweighs his mother's warnings or his personal safety". Judith Robertson and colleagues examine the element of ruthlessness in the story. In their view, Peter Rabbit's qualities such as ruthlessness and defiance allow Potter to speak of her own self-knowledge; this serves both as an outlet for
704-607: The Merrie Melodies short film, Country Boy . It shows some modifications in relation to Beatrix Potter's original story, most notably the Rabbit family surname is changed to "Cottontail" and Peter having two brothers and a sister rather than three sisters. In 1971, Peter Rabbit appeared as a character in the ballet film The Tales of Beatrix Potter . In late 1991, HBO aired an animated musical adaptation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit , narrated by Carol Burnett , as part of
748-497: The surname Hentschel . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hentschel&oldid=1170329813 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of German origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
792-399: The vegetable garden of an old man named Mr. McGregor, whose wife, Mrs. McGregor, put their father in a pie after he entered and got caught by Mr. McGregor. Peter's three younger sisters obediently stay away from Mr. McGregor's garden, choosing to go down the lane and gather blackberries , but Peter enters Mr. McGregor's garden in the hopes of eating some vegetables . Peter eats more than
836-533: The Lyric Theatre now stands, having to look after a lot of Communists, who had had to leave Paris. Our one recreation was week-ending on the river. It was roughing it in a manner which would hardly appeal to us now. Jerome and Wingrave used to live in Tavistock Place, now pulled down, and that was our starting-point to Waterloo and thence to the river. It says much for our general harmony that, during
880-524: The book has generated considerable merchandise for both children and adults, including toys, dishes, foods, clothing, and videos. Potter was one of the first to be responsible for such merchandise when she patented a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903 and followed it almost immediately with a Peter Rabbit board game. Peter Rabbit has remained popular amongst children for more than a century and continues to be adapted into new book editions, television programmes, and films. Scholars of literature have commented on themes in
924-461: The book is "radical" in multiple ways. The first of these is its child-centred size, easy to hold. It is radical, too, in its nonlinear quality, with the images not immediately beside the text they illustrate (and sometimes before that text), and with sentences that often start with the result, and end with the actor, as in "But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!" The meaning, too, has more than one layer, not least in
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#1732772934361968-507: The book was still protected at that time. Some use both Potter's words and her illustrations, though sometimes too small to read. Warne itself has issued a large-format book, The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit , printing several of the original pages "as panels on a larger page". Mackey comments that this at once loses the subtlety of the original's layout and book design . In 1989, Warne further printed Scenes from The Tale of Peter Rabbit with "five three-dimensional cut-out pictures from
1012-526: The book when it was published in the United States; unlicensed editions of the book were produced, the first published by Henry Altemus Company in 1904. The book has been translated into 36 languages. Over 45 million copies have been sold, making it one of the best-selling books in history. Scholars have identified a variety of themes in The Tale of Peter Rabbit . Eliza Dresang suggests that
1056-434: The book, such as its radical quality, Peter Rabbit's rebellious nature, and the story's ruthlessness, stating that these offer readers a chance to imagine going to similar extremes. In 1893, Beatrix Potter heard that the 5-year-old son of a friend, Annie Moore, was convalescing after scarlet fever . Potter decided to entertain the boy, Noel, with an illustrated letter. With her pet rabbit named Peter Piper in mind, she wrote
1100-403: The book, tagged with quotations from the story." Among the seemingly-pirated editions, one by Ottenheimer Publishers in 1993 printed only a selection of the illustrations with the text, with larger but fewer pages. In Mackey's view, "this version is simply an example of diminishment and loss", as the rhythm of the original is dislocated. Other editions dispense with Potter's text altogether, using
1144-639: The commercial possibilities of her characters and tales; between 1903 and 1905 these included a Peter Rabbit stuffed toy, an unpublished board game, and nursery wallpaper. The scholar Margaret Mackey writes that Warne was still attempting to prevent other publishers from printing The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1993, despite the failure to protect the copyright 90 years earlier. In her view "the battle has clearly been lost", as multiple editions and formats exist in North America, and some "even in Britain" where
1188-537: The delivery of the originals". He has been described as "revolutionising the means of newspaper illustration" and "having done more than any one else in England to perfect line-block technology". His work is used in the 1895 book Modern Illustration , by Joseph Pennell . In 1915, during the First World War , it was reported that the firm had lost business because people had assumed from its name that it
1232-404: The dressed animals, which are at once experienced by the reader as animals and as humans. And the book's start, with the death of Peter Rabbit's father, is a radical innovation for a book for small children. Katie Mullins describes Peter's rebellious nature, which is seen in the book's first dialogue, when Mrs. Rabbit forbids Peter to go into Mr. McGregor's garden. Mullins comments that the garden
1276-470: The first process block, which brought about a revolution in newspaper illustration". He established his company, Carl Hentschel Co., in 1887. In 1899 he founded a second one, Carl Hentschel Colourtype Company, which used a three-colour printing technique. The company printed Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit using this technique in 1902. Carl Hentschel Co. was described as "the leading firm engaged in line-process work in this country". The firm
1320-544: The first woman to direct Shakespeare at the Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Festival, and Christopher Carl Hentschel (born 1899), a university lecturer in zoology. The newspaper editor GB Burgin described him as "the indefatigable Carl Hentschel ... possessed of more persuasive and pervasive dynamic force than any man I have ever met". Hentschel was a theatre-goer, and said that he had attended almost every London first night. He
1364-518: The network's Storybook Musicals series, which was later released to VHS by Family Home Entertainment under HBO licence. In 1992, the tale was adapted to animation again for the BBC anthology series , The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends , along with The Tale of Benjamin Bunny . In 2006, Peter Rabbit was heavily referenced in a biopic about Beatrix Potter entitled Miss Potter . In December 2012,
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1408-461: The suffrage magazine The Common Cause and printed cards and a calendar for the Artists' Suffrage League. His wife, Bertha Hentschel, was active in the suffrage movement, and in 1910 proposed that a new Women's Suffrage Society was formed. Hentschel wrote to The Times in 1908 protesting against the treatment of women suffragists. The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1452-513: The text and the illustrations. The first edition had a print run of 250, with monochrome illustrations. The demand was greater and she needed to print 200 more. Warne published the first full-colour edition in 1902. The blocks for the illustrations and text were sent to the printer Edmund Evans for engraving , and Potter adjusted the page proofs . The book was soon on sale in shops in London, including Harrods department store, accompanied by
1496-621: The ward he represented was Farringdon Without . He campaigned for issues including ceasing the practice that aldermen were elected for life, and limiting speeches. His public roles included Chair of the Guildhall School of Music and President of the City of London's Tradesmens' Club. During the First World War he was secretary of the Optimists Corps . Hentschel was a supporter of women's suffrage , advertised his firm in
1540-518: The watering can so Peter gets wet and sneezes, alerting Mr. McGregor. When Mr. McGregor gets tired running after Peter and resumes his work, Peter tries to escape, but is completely lost in the huge garden. Peter tries getting a young mouse to help him, however she is collecting food for her family and cannot help. Peter also notices a cat sitting by a pond. Peter considers asking for directions, but ultimately decides not to, having been warned about cats by his cousin. However, Peter sees that Mr. McGregor
1584-407: The world's first licensed character , a soft toy of Peter Rabbit. By December 1903 the book had sold 50,000 copies. The book's success prompted Warne to obtain more stories from Potter, starting in 1903 with both The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin . The book has since been reprinted many times, and after 100 years had never gone out of print. Warne did not copyright
1628-574: The years we spent together in such cramped confinement, we never fell out, metaphorically or literally. Although Harris is shown as frequently drinking alcohol, in real life Hentschel was the only one of the three friends who didn't drink. Hentschel's Times obituary reports that "He married, in 1889, Bertha, a daughter of Mr. David Posener, and he used to say that this was the cleverest thing he ever did, for her help and sympathy alone enabled him to come through his early struggles." Their children included Irene Hentschel (1891–1979), theatre director and
1672-603: Was a German company. As a photographer, Hentschel won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Hentschel met Jerome K Jerome and Jerome's friend George Wingrave at the theatre. They set up a literary society, the Old Vagabonds' Club, in about 1883 with some other men. Jerome based "Harris" in Three Men in a Boat on Hentschel. Jerome wrote: Harris was Carl Hentschel. I met him first outside
1716-608: Was accused of being a German. As a matter of fact he was a Pole. But his trade rivals had got their chance, and took it. Hentschel himself said of the trips which became Three Men in a Boat , Jerome at that time was in a solicitor’s office in Cecil Street, where the Hotel Cecil now stands, George Wingrave was a junior clerk in a bank in the City, and I was working in a top studio in Windmill Street, close to where
1760-626: Was an illustrated book about the Slade School of Fine Art , published in 1907. The Printing World noted in 1902 that "for two recent numbers of the Lady's Pictorial and one of the Lady Mr. Hentschel finished and delivered sixty-five large pages of reproduction from pen-and-ink drawings in three days - about the smartest bit of work ever done". The Sketch in 1906 said that the company "contracts to supply urgent engravings in A FEW HOURS from
1804-520: Was located at 182-184 Fleet Street . The poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg was apprenticed there in 1905. He was unhappy there; in 1909 he was working long hours, until 11pm, and earning 30 to 35 shillings a week, and was sacked in 1911. Henschel's work included illustrations for Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde , notably Wilde's Salome (1894). The critic Nick Frankel has referred to "the triangle of friendship and collaboration between Hentschel, Wilde and Beardsley". Another important production
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1848-778: Was one of the founders of the Playgoers' Club in 1883. He broke away from the club in 1900 and formed the Old Playgoers' or O.P. Club. He and Mandell also started a periodical, the Playgoer , but the Times says that "it did not live long". He also edited a periodical called Newspaper illustration . Hentschel was active in public life, particularly in the City of London . He was on the Court of Common Council between 1901 and 1921;
1892-417: Was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902 . The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages, and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books in history. Since its release,
1936-641: Was the original of "Harris" in Jerome K. Jerome 's Three Men in a Boat (1889). Hentschel was born in Łódź , now in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire , on 27 March 1864. He was the son of August Hentschel, who was an engraver, and Olga. The family emigrated to Britain when Carl was five. His obituary in The Times says that he "had some education at Eastbourne , where his father then had
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