Thanks so much, Rhonda (another reason to go to England), and thanks
for a couple of off-list suggestions. One set of 18th century
illustrations of Sidney is amazingly crude--more like early 16th c.
or chapbook pictures. By the way, as I was looking at the
illustrations of Sidney, such as they are, in the French editions
digitized for the Bibl. Nat.'s Gallica website, I saw one of one of
Sidney's heros being held by friends and vomiting up seawater (I
assume that's seawater). This makes two pictures I know of that show
characters upchucking (the other is Tom Coryate). You see? The
Renaissance really did have a sense of the inward self and how it can
emerge under pressure. Anne.
On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Sanford, Rhonda wrote:
> Perhaps of interest are the scenes from the Arcadia, painted by
> Emanuel de Critz (17c) below the rail trim on all four sides of the
> Single Cube room at Wilton House.
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> Dr. Rhonda Lemke Sanford
> Associate Professor of English, Fairmont State University
> Secretary-Treasurer, International Spenser Society
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> Dear List--I have been working on an essay on the Sidney psalms, by a
> pair of siblings, and some psalms translations by Elisabeth-Sophie
> Chéron illustrated by her brother, Louis, a Huguenot (she converted to
> Catholicism) who fled to England after the Revocation of the Edict of
> Nantes--in other words, another sibling team. To my delight I
> discovered (partly by working on ECCO, partly thanks to some research
> by Roger Kuin) that the 1725 edition of Sidney's works include
> illustrations of Sidney's Arcadia done by . . . Louis Chéron. Not
> needed for my essay but a really, really neat thing to know and worth
> at least a reference. But the 1725 edition says it's the 14th edition.
> Louis and Elisabeth, as we say, "flourished" a generation or even two
> earlier, under Charles II. Does anyone know about the first 13
> editions of the 1725 ed. of Sidney's works? Is there anything good on
> illustrations of Sidney? Chéron is too late for the stuff on Gallica
> and I can find nothing relevant on EEBO. Thanks. Anne.
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