Anne, you are hysterically funny.
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> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:32 AM
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> Subject: Re: Sidney illustrations and Renaissance interiority
>
> 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.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Dr. Rhonda Lemke Sanford
> > Associate Professor of English, Fairmont State University
> > Secretary-Treasurer, International Spenser Society
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
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> > From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List on behalf of anne prescott
> > Sent: Sun 1/10/2010 6:13 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Sidney illustrations
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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